repo: ignore empty init.defaultbranch

The init.defaultbranch option may be set, but empty.  In this case, we
should ignore it instead of trying to set our default branch to
`refs/heads/`.

Author: ethomson

src/repository.c

@@ -2092,7 +2092,8 @@ static int repo_init_head(const char *repo_dir, const char *given)
 	if (given) {
 		initial_head = given;
 	} else if ((error = git_config_open_default(&cfg)) >= 0 &&
-	           (error = git_config_get_string_buf(&cfg_branch, cfg, "init.defaultbranch")) >= 0) {
+	           (error = git_config_get_string_buf(&cfg_branch, cfg, "init.defaultbranch")) >= 0 &&
+	           *cfg_branch.ptr) {
 		initial_head = cfg_branch.ptr;
 	}
 

tests/repo/init.c

@@ -688,3 +688,19 @@ void test_repo_init__defaultbranch_config(void)
 
 	git_reference_free(head);
 }
+
+void test_repo_init__defaultbranch_config_empty(void)
+{
+	git_reference *head;
+
+	cl_set_cleanup(&cleanup_repository, "repo");
+
+	create_tmp_global_config("tmp_global_path", "init.defaultbranch", "");
+
+	cl_git_pass(git_repository_init(&g_repo, "repo", 0));
+	cl_git_pass(git_reference_lookup(&head, g_repo, "HEAD"));
+
+	cl_assert_equal_s("refs/heads/master", git_reference_symbolic_target(head));
+
+	git_reference_free(head);
+}