builtin/branch: remove redundant check for HEAD

The lower level code has been made to handle this case for the
sake of consistency. This has made this check redundant.

So, remove the redundant check.

Signed-off-by: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/builtin/branch.c b/builtin/branch.c
index e5bbfb4a171fcacd92ca9614dbcd0f97627d8c77..945790b60b355b06cebebbf76d29fa428d414d0e 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin/branch.c
+++ b/builtin/branch.c
@@ -793,9 +793,6 @@ int cmd_branch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
        } else if (argc > 0 && argc <= 2) {
                struct branch *branch = branch_get(argv[0]);
 
-               if (!strcmp(argv[0], "HEAD"))
-                       die(_("it does not make sense to create 'HEAD' manually"));
-
                if (!branch)
                        die(_("no such branch '%s'"), argv[0]);