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| author |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-11-15 10:23:51 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-11-15 10:23:51 -0800 |
| commit | b398fcc2623872225e3534c8344ca5734cbfe164 (patch) | |
| tree | e4d6c1089356ca19ccbd0508ea92c29c283709f8 /Documentation | |
| parent | Merge branch 'jc/maint-fetch-tighten-refname-check' (diff) | |
| parent | git symbolic-ref --delete $symref (diff) | |
| download | tgif-b398fcc2623872225e3534c8344ca5734cbfe164.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'jh/symbolic-ref-d'
Add "symbolic-ref -d SYM" to delete a symbolic ref SYM.
It is already possible to remove a symbolic ref with "update-ref -d
--no-deref", but it may be a good addition for completeness.
* jh/symbolic-ref-d:
git symbolic-ref --delete $symref
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -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 981d3a8fc1..ef68ad2b71 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-symbolic-ref.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-symbolic-ref.txt @@ -3,13 +3,14 @@ git-symbolic-ref(1) NAME ---- -git-symbolic-ref - Read and modify symbolic refs +git-symbolic-ref - Read, modify and delete symbolic refs SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] 'git symbolic-ref' [-m <reason>] <name> <ref> 'git symbolic-ref' [-q] [--short] <name> +'git symbolic-ref' --delete [-q] <name> DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -21,6 +22,9 @@ argument to see which branch your working tree is on. Given two arguments, creates or updates a symbolic ref <name> to point at the given branch <ref>. +Given `--delete` and an additional argument, deletes the given +symbolic ref. + 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`. @@ -28,6 +32,10 @@ a regular file whose contents is `ref: refs/heads/master`. OPTIONS ------- +-d:: +--delete:: + Delete the symbolic ref <name>. + -q:: --quiet:: Do not issue an error message if the <name> is not a |