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-rw-r--r--builtin/symbolic-ref.c2
-rwxr-xr-xt/t1401-symbolic-ref.sh22
2 files changed, 23 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/builtin/symbolic-ref.c b/builtin/symbolic-ref.c
index ce0fde7..9c29a64 100644
--- a/builtin/symbolic-ref.c
+++ b/builtin/symbolic-ref.c
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ int cmd_symbolic_ref(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
if (!strcmp(argv[0], "HEAD") &&
!starts_with(argv[1], "refs/"))
die("Refusing to point HEAD outside of refs/");
- create_symref(argv[0], argv[1], msg);
+ ret = !!create_symref(argv[0], argv[1], msg);
break;
default:
usage_with_options(git_symbolic_ref_usage, options);
diff --git a/t/t1401-symbolic-ref.sh b/t/t1401-symbolic-ref.sh
index 36378b0..64968b7 100755
--- a/t/t1401-symbolic-ref.sh
+++ b/t/t1401-symbolic-ref.sh
@@ -63,4 +63,26 @@ test_expect_success 'symbolic-ref fails to delete real ref' '
'
reset_to_sane
+test_expect_success 'symbolic-ref reports failure in exit code' '
+ test_when_finished "rm -f .git/HEAD.lock" &&
+ >.git/HEAD.lock &&
+ test_must_fail git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/whatever
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'symbolic-ref writes reflog entry' '
+ git checkout -b log1 &&
+ test_commit one &&
+ git checkout -b log2 &&
+ test_commit two &&
+ git checkout --orphan orphan &&
+ git symbolic-ref -m create HEAD refs/heads/log1 &&
+ git symbolic-ref -m update HEAD refs/heads/log2 &&
+ cat >expect <<-\EOF &&
+ update
+ create
+ EOF
+ git log --format=%gs -g >actual &&
+ test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
test_done