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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-symbolic-ref.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | git-pull.sh | 13 |
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 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> diff --git a/git-pull.sh b/git-pull.sh index 959261757c..a3665d7751 100755 --- a/git-pull.sh +++ b/git-pull.sh @@ -83,8 +83,17 @@ merge_head=$(sed -e '/ not-for-merge /d' \ case "$merge_head" in '') - curr_branch=$(git-symbolic-ref HEAD | \ - sed -e 's|^refs/heads/||') + curr_branch=$(git-symbolic-ref -q HEAD) + case $? in + 0) ;; + 1) echo >&2 "You are not currently on a branch; you must explicitly" + echo >&2 "specify which branch you wish to merge:" + echo >&2 " git pull <remote> <branch>" + exit 1;; + *) exit $?;; + esac + curr_branch=${curr_branch#refs/heads/} + echo >&2 "Warning: No merge candidate found because value of config option \"branch.${curr_branch}.merge\" does not match any remote branch fetched." echo >&2 "No changes." |