Merge http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/gitk/gitk

diff --git a/setup.c b/setup.c
index 9e20160d941bd610ca8f752627a4481a728d9a8a..c487d7eb9de70c651ef06a6bfd4a7571337fad84 100644 (file)
--- a/setup.c
+++ b/setup.c
@@ -76,18 +76,20 @@ const char **get_pathspec(const char *prefix, const char **pathspec)
  * Test it it looks like we're at the top
  * level git directory. We want to see a
  *
- *  - a HEAD symlink and a refs/ directory under ".git"
  *  - either a .git/objects/ directory _or_ the proper
  *    GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY environment variable
+ *  - a refs/ directory under ".git"
+ *  - either a HEAD symlink or a HEAD file that is formatted as
+ *    a proper "ref:".
  */
 static int is_toplevel_directory(void)
 {
-       struct stat st;
-
-       return  !lstat(".git/HEAD", &st) &&
-               S_ISLNK(st.st_mode) &&
-               !access(".git/refs/", X_OK) &&
-               (getenv(DB_ENVIRONMENT) || !access(".git/objects/", X_OK));
+       if (access(".git/refs/", X_OK) ||
+           access(getenv(DB_ENVIRONMENT) ?
+                  getenv(DB_ENVIRONMENT) : ".git/objects/", X_OK) ||
+           validate_symref(".git/HEAD"))
+               return 0;
+       return 1;
 }
 
 const char *setup_git_directory(void)