From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:00:41 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bisect: Store first bad commit as comment in log file
Message-ID: <7vwqs3zvmu.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20130415095339.GA28480@pvv.ntnu.no>

Torstein Hegge <hegge@resisty.net> writes:

> I was wondering why "git grep show-ref *.sh" gave so few users. It looks
> like rev-parse is more common.

It is primarily because show-ref is slightly newer.  When you have a
full refname (e.g. refs/bisect/bad) and not an arbitrary object name
that is spelled in a random way (e.g. master~24):

       show-ref --verify refs/bisect/bad

is a perfectly valid way to make sure it _is_ an existing ref.

Cf. 358ddb62cfd0 (Add "git show-ref" builtin command, 2006-09-15)