Re: git-check-ref-format returns 1 for valid branch names

From: Nikolai Weibull <now@bitwi.se>
Date: Mar 22, 2007, 20:42 UTC
Message-ID: <dbfc82860703221342h4e1ade1am2961a0a996d7d20c@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vejnht3x2.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On 3/22/07, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:

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> "Nikolai Weibull" <now@bitwi.se> writes:
>
> > I'm obviously doing something wrong, but in git 1.5.0.4
> >
> > % git check-ref-format abc
> > % echo $?
> > 1
> >
> > What am I missing here?
>
> If you are trying to see if abc is a valid branch name, try refs/heads/abc.

Thanks. I just saw an example in git-checkout (where it's testing "heads/$newbranch").

  nikolai