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| author | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2007-01-15 13:56:05 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2007-01-15 15:35:07 -0800 |
| commit | a0f4280f9e5decd384fe5cc9e30414b901aeb478 (patch) | |
| tree | 927157116ad3f3af9b1982c68cba6b35afd12948 /Documentation/git-symbolic-ref.txt | |
| parent | 15261e3b33de3b49cc0a7d1b36b8685e02931ad7 (diff) | |
| download | git-a0f4280f9e5decd384fe5cc9e30414b901aeb478.tar.gz | |
Fix git-fetch while on detached HEAD not to give needlessly alarming errors
When we are on a detached HEAD, there is no current branch.
There is no reason to leak the error messages to the end user
since this is a situation we expect to see.
This adds -q option to git-symbolic-ref to exit without issuing
an error message if the given name is not a symbolic ref.
By the way, with or without this patch, there currently is no
good way to tell failure modes between "git symbolic-ref HAED"
and "git symbolic-ref HEAD". Both says "is not a symbolic ref".
We may want to do something about it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-symbolic-ref.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-symbolic-ref.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-symbolic-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-symbolic-ref.txt index 4bc35a1d4b..1e818bb02d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-symbolic-ref.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-symbolic-ref.txt @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ git-symbolic-ref - read and modify symbolic refs SYNOPSIS -------- -'git-symbolic-ref' <name> [<ref>] +'git-symbolic-ref' [-q] <name> [<ref>] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -23,6 +23,14 @@ A symbolic ref is a regular file that stores a string that begins with `ref: refs/`. For example, your `.git/HEAD` is a regular file whose contents is `ref: refs/heads/master`. +OPTIONS +------- + +-q:: + Do not issue an error message if the <name> is not a + symbolic ref but a detached HEAD; instead exit with + non-zero status silently. + NOTES ----- In the past, `.git/HEAD` was a symbolic link pointing at |