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Bug 349664

Summary:	Repository#getBranch() returns 'master' when the repo has no branches.
Product:	[Technology] JGit	Reporter:	Szymon Brandys <Szymon.Brandys>
Component:	JGit	Assignee:	Project Inbox <jgit.core-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	pwebster, robin.rosenberg, tomasz.zarna
Version:	1.0
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	349663

Description Szymon Brandys

2011-06-17 05:29:04 EDT

Repository#getBranch() returns 'master' when the repo has no branches. I would expect to see 'null' or an exception.

Steps:
Try to clone git://github.com/bokowski/empty.git and check what the active branch is using #getBranch for it.

Comment 1 Robin Rosenberg

2011-06-18 05:32:33 EDT

This is correct. The current branch IS master, but it has no commits and is therefore sometimes called and "unborn" branch. If you commit now, the commit will be created on the master branch.

If you want to see that the branch is unborn, just resolve it and you'll get a null.