fix(gittools): gittree wouldn't run in branchless repos #427
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gittree used to be `gittreeif @` on the theory that every git repo had @ or HEAD. But a git repo with no branches at all, not even main, has no HEAD. Now that we have repos used exclusively for issues, we have to deal with zero commits, zero branches.
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I would argue that every repository should have at least a README file, and therefore at least one branch. Can we fix it from that end instead? |
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That could be a thing to do, but it doesn't change the brokenness here: I didn't understand why I went looking for empty repos and couldn't find them. This is an improvement to this alias. |
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gittreeused to begittreeif @on the theory that every git repo had @ (alias for HEAD). But a git repo with no branches at all, not even main, has no HEAD. Now that we have repos used exclusively for issues, we have to deal with zero commits, zero branches.