Re: [PATCH] git-bisect.sh: don't accidentally override existing branch "bisect"

> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:30 PM, Christian Couder
>
> <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> wrote:
> >  Minor nitpick: you may use:
> >
> >  git show-ref -q {new-,}bisect
> >
> >  instead of:
> >
> >
> >  git show-ref bisect > /dev/null ||
> >         git show-ref new-bisect > /dev/null
>
> Careful with that - it's a bashism and would fail if /bin/sh is dash.
> ie it would say that a branch called literally "{new-,}bisect" does
> not exist, even if new-bisect and bisect do.