Re: [PATCH v1 4/6] Expanded branch header for Porcelain Status V2

On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 06:10:56PM -0400, Jeff Hostetler wrote:

+	} else {
+		/*
+		 * TODO All of various print routines allow for s->branch to be null.
+		 * TODO When can this happen and what should we report here?
+		 */
+		fprintf(s->fp, " %s", "(unknown)");
+	}

IIRC, it happens when HEAD points to a broken ref. So something like:

  git init
  echo broken >.git/refs/heads/master

would cause resolving HEAD to return NULL.

-Peff