Exit status of git show-ref --verify
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- Marc Legendre <legendre@anatoscope.com>
- Date
- Jul 6, 2020, 18:55 UTC
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Hi,
I stumbled upon a small discrepancy between the documentation of git-show-ref and its actual behavior. The documentation of the `--verify` flag of git-show-ref says:
"If nothing matches, 'git show-ref' will return an error code of 1"
Yet it seems to return 1 only if it is also called with --quiet. Tested with the `next` branch:
[~/dev/git] $ ./git show-ref --verify refs/heads/tagada fatal: 'refs/heads/tagada' - not a valid ref [~/dev/git] $ echo $? 128
[~/dev/git] $ ./git show-ref --quiet --verify refs/heads/tagada [~/dev/git] $ echo $? 1
Regards, Marc Legendre