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authorWill Dietz <w@wdtz.org>2017-12-22T20·18-0600
committerWill Dietz <w@wdtz.org>2017-12-22T21·29-0600
commit2e6f06c37e26a5ac5be35fe18f283a1b26de64bf (patch)
treeac324b128560f6f1610076ab08b0a8325f6dad30 /src/libexpr/primops/fetchGit.cc
parentaa43cbb7646e880f871df4280f8a1909520136f0 (diff)
fetchGit: Fix handling of local repo when not using 'master' branch
Add tests checking this behavior.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/libexpr/primops/fetchGit.cc')
-rw-r--r--src/libexpr/primops/fetchGit.cc6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/libexpr/primops/fetchGit.cc b/src/libexpr/primops/fetchGit.cc
index e92e0638031f..0d0b11958a4b 100644
--- a/src/libexpr/primops/fetchGit.cc
+++ b/src/libexpr/primops/fetchGit.cc
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ struct GitInfo
 };
 
 GitInfo exportGit(ref<Store> store, const std::string & uri,
-    std::experimental::optional<std::string> ref, const std::string & rev,
+    std::experimental::optional<std::string> ref, std::string rev,
     const std::string & name)
 {
     if (!ref && rev == "" && hasPrefix(uri, "/") && pathExists(uri + "/.git")) {
@@ -68,6 +68,10 @@ GitInfo exportGit(ref<Store> store, const std::string & uri,
 
             return gitInfo;
         }
+
+        // clean working tree, but no ref or rev specified.  Use 'HEAD'.
+        rev = chomp(runProgram("git", true, { "-C", uri, "rev-parse", "HEAD" }));
+        ref = "HEAD"s;
     }
 
     if (!ref) ref = "master"s;