branch -h: show usage even in an invalid repository

There is no need for "git branch -h" to try to access a repository.

In the spirit of v1.6.6-rc0~34^2~3 (Let 'git <command> -h' show usage
without a git dir, 2009-11-09).  This brings git one step closer to
passing the following (automatically verifiable) test:

 Before any repository access (aside from git_config()), a
 function from the setup_git_directory_* family has been run

and thus one step closer to being able to use an automatic repository
access checker.

[jn: simplified; new commit message, test]

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/builtin/branch.c b/builtin/branch.c
index 87976f0921d87f2a8564eb54aa3b81d30ee7f214..0e50556a151c186429e13d03fc8e279fa6ddecd5 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin/branch.c
+++ b/builtin/branch.c
@@ -667,6 +667,9 @@ int cmd_branch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
                OPT_END(),
        };
 
+       if (argc == 2 && !strcmp(argv[1], "-h"))
+               usage_with_options(builtin_branch_usage, options);
+
        git_config(git_branch_config, NULL);
 
        if (branch_use_color == -1)

diff --git a/t/t3200-branch.sh b/t/t3200-branch.sh
index f54a533456d74a3eb2f745dbc77c8ad5a5ae960f..f308235f5dd28da2c19d91dc63803312aacd2cda 100755 (executable)
--- a/t/t3200-branch.sh
+++ b/t/t3200-branch.sh
@@ -26,6 +26,17 @@ test_expect_success \
      ! test -f .git/refs/heads/--help
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'branch -h in broken repository' '
+       mkdir broken &&
+       (
+               cd broken &&
+               git init &&
+               >.git/refs/heads/master &&
+               test_expect_code 129 git branch -h >usage 2>&1
+       ) &&
+       grep "[Uu]sage" broken/usage
+'
+
 test_expect_success \
     'git branch abc should create a branch' \
     'git branch abc && test -f .git/refs/heads/abc'