remote: don't resolve HEAD in non-repository

The remote-config code wants to look at HEAD to mark the
current branch specially. But if we are not in a repository
(e.g., running "git archive --remote"), this makes no sense;
there is no HEAD to look at, and we have no current branch.

This doesn't really cause any bugs in practice (if you are
not in a repo, you probably don't have a .git/HEAD file),
but we should be more careful about triggering the refs code
at all in a non-repo. As we grow new ref backends, we would
not even know which backend to use.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/remote.c b/remote.c
index fc02698..28fd676 100644 (file)
--- a/remote.c
+++ b/remote.c
@@ -455,7 +455,6 @@ static void read_config(void)
 {
        static int loaded;
        struct object_id oid;
-       const char *head_ref;
        int flag;
 
        if (loaded)
@@ -463,10 +462,12 @@ static void read_config(void)
        loaded = 1;
 
        current_branch = NULL;
-       head_ref = resolve_ref_unsafe("HEAD", 0, oid.hash, &flag);
-       if (head_ref && (flag & REF_ISSYMREF) &&
-           skip_prefix(head_ref, "refs/heads/", &head_ref)) {
-               current_branch = make_branch(head_ref, 0);
+       if (startup_info->have_repository) {
+               const char *head_ref = resolve_ref_unsafe("HEAD", 0, oid.hash, &flag);
+               if (head_ref && (flag & REF_ISSYMREF) &&
+                   skip_prefix(head_ref, "refs/heads/", &head_ref)) {
+                       current_branch = make_branch(head_ref, 0);
+               }
        }
        git_config(handle_config, NULL);
        alias_all_urls();