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| author | Jeff King <peff@peff.net> | 2007-01-15 22:25:33 (GMT) |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2007-01-15 23:37:22 (GMT) |
| commit | a74b1706c89c5e966c64316575e0b33dd21b8128 (patch) | |
| tree | 715fa28328a866548a5101e87537aa94a1708e61 /Documentation/git-symbolic-ref.txt | |
| parent | a0f4280f9e5decd384fe5cc9e30414b901aeb478 (diff) | |
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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>
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-symbolic-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-symbolic-ref.txt index 1e818bb..fec3b4f 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> |