Re: Bizarre behavior on git commit

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: May 5, 2010, 06:01 UTC
Message-ID: <20100505060110.GA21260@progeny.tock>
In-Reply-To: <s2t6f5a4e781005042246sb9ef3d48j134b22b5b41133ed@mail.gmail.com>

Dan Loewenherz wrote:

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> I'm running into a weird issue in a specific repo where "git show-ref"
> usage is being displayed after invocating "git commit".
> 
> E.g.
> $ git commit -m "my commit message"
> usage: git show-ref [-q|--quiet] [--verify] [--head]

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>                           show refs from stdin that aren't in local repository
> 
> [master 28a735f] my commit message
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> $

Strange.  Maybe a hook script?

  GIT_TRACE=1 git commit -m "my commit message"

should reveal the culprit, I hope.

Hope that helps, Jonathan