From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 00:02:00 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rev-parse --symbolic-full-name: don't print '^' if SHA1 is not a ref
Message-ID: <7v3ao8r2mf.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4836D0F1.4090007@viscovery.net>

Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:

> From: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
>
> The intention of --symbolic-full-name is to not print anything if a
> revision is not an exact ref. But this command:
>
>     $ git-rev-parse --symbolic-full-name --not master~1
>
> still emitted a sole '^' to stdout (provided that there's no other ref at
> master~1).

Well spotted.  Thanks.