From 97ad5015e89ca3eef902667bf8d6b6261cc82d7e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ethernet <arilotter@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2026 17:35:21 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] fix(activate): tolerate non-git fixture checkouts

---
 activate | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/activate b/activate
index 6e40f1380a..43813e985d 100755
--- a/activate
+++ b/activate
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ for k, v in json.load(sys.stdin).items():
 # alias, and a hashed command, including the MSIX execution alias.
 __HERMES_WORKTREE="$_hermes_repo"
 # The branch names the worktree. A checkout cannot share a branch with another.
-__HERMES_WORKTREE_NAME="$(git -C "$_hermes_repo" rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD 2>/dev/null)"
+__HERMES_WORKTREE_NAME="$(git -C "$_hermes_repo" rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD 2>/dev/null || :)"
 if [ -z "$__HERMES_WORKTREE_NAME" ] || [ "$__HERMES_WORKTREE_NAME" = HEAD ]; then
     __HERMES_WORKTREE_NAME="$(basename "$_hermes_repo")"
 fi