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| author |  Jeff King <peff@peff.net> | 2007-01-15 17:25:33 -0500 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2007-01-15 15:37:22 -0800 |
| commit | a74b1706c89c5e966c64316575e0b33dd21b8128 (patch) | |
| tree | 715fa28328a866548a5101e87537aa94a1708e61 /Documentation/git-symbolic-ref.txt | |
| parent | Fix git-fetch while on detached HEAD not to give needlessly alarming errors (diff) | |
| download | tgif-a74b1706c89c5e966c64316575e0b33dd21b8128.tar.xz | |
git-pull: disallow implicit merging to detached HEAD
Instead, we complain to the user and suggest that they explicitly
specify the remote and branch. We depend on the exit status of
git-symbolic-ref, so let's go ahead and document that.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
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 | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-symbolic-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-symbolic-ref.txt index 1e818bb02d..fec3b4f64a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-symbolic-ref.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-symbolic-ref.txt @@ -44,6 +44,10 @@ cumbersome. On some platforms, `ln -sf` does not even work as advertised (horrors). Therefore symbolic links are now deprecated and symbolic refs are used by default. +git-symbolic-ref will exit with status 0 if the contents of the +symbolic ref were printed correctly, with status 1 if the requested +name is not a symbolic ref, or 128 if another error occurs. + Author ------ Written by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> |