default pull: forget about "newbie protection" for now.

diff --git a/builtin-symbolic-ref.c b/builtin-symbolic-ref.c
index 1d3a5e229ae1a16211671e7591a7544af98721f8..d8be0527f4752131b0a1276ecedcc82714636c28 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin-symbolic-ref.c
+++ b/builtin-symbolic-ref.c
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 #include "builtin.h"
 #include "cache.h"
+#include "refs.h"
 
 static const char git_symbolic_ref_usage[] =
 "git-symbolic-ref name [ref]";
@@ -7,15 +8,14 @@ static const char git_symbolic_ref_usage[] =
 static void check_symref(const char *HEAD)
 {
        unsigned char sha1[20];
-       const char *git_HEAD = xstrdup(git_path("%s", HEAD));
-       const char *git_refs_heads_master = resolve_ref(git_HEAD, sha1, 0);
-       if (git_refs_heads_master) {
-               /* we want to strip the .git/ part */
-               int pfxlen = strlen(git_HEAD) - strlen(HEAD);
-               puts(git_refs_heads_master + pfxlen);
-       }
-       else
+       int flag;
+       const char *refs_heads_master = resolve_ref(HEAD, sha1, 0, &flag);
+
+       if (!refs_heads_master)
                die("No such ref: %s", HEAD);
+       else if (!(flag & REF_ISSYMREF))
+               die("ref %s is not a symbolic ref", HEAD);
+       puts(refs_heads_master);
 }
 
 int cmd_symbolic_ref(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ int cmd_symbolic_ref(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
                check_symref(argv[1]);
                break;
        case 3:
-               create_symref(xstrdup(git_path("%s", argv[1])), argv[2]);
+               create_symref(argv[1], argv[2]);
                break;
        default:
                usage(git_symbolic_ref_usage);