rev-parse: rev-parse: add --is-shallow-repositoryow/rev-parse-is-shallow-repo

Running `git fetch --unshallow` on a repo that is not in fact shallow
produces a fatal error message. Add a helper to rev-parse that scripters
can use to determine whether a repo is shallow or not.

Signed-off-by: Øystein Walle <oystwa@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/t/t1500-rev-parse.sh b/t/t1500-rev-parse.sh
index 03d3c7f6d6..5c715fe2cf 100755
--- a/t/t1500-rev-parse.sh
+++ b/t/t1500-rev-parse.sh
@@ -116,6 +116,21 @@ test_expect_success 'git-path inside sub-dir' '
 	test_cmp expect actual
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'rev-parse --is-shallow-repository in shallow repo' '
+	test_commit test_commit &&
+	echo true >expect &&
+	git clone --depth 1 --no-local . shallow &&
+	test_when_finished "rm -rf shallow" &&
+	git -C shallow rev-parse --is-shallow-repository >actual &&
+	test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'rev-parse --is-shallow-repository in non-shallow repo' '
+	echo false >expect &&
+	git rev-parse --is-shallow-repository >actual &&
+	test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'showing the superproject correctly' '
 	git rev-parse --show-superproject-working-tree >out &&
 	test_must_be_empty out &&