Re: Commiting automatically (2)

From: Maaartin <grajcar1@seznam.cz>
Date: Dec 21, 2010, 08:36 UTC
Message-ID: <loom.20101221T092948-59@post.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <20101220073312.GA23482@nibiru.local>

Enrico Weigelt <weigelt <at> metux.de> writes:

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> * Maaartin <grajcar1 <at> seznam.cz> wrote:
> 
> > Yes, I wonder why it wasn't already implemented. I do something like
> > make all; git snapshot; send_the_executable_to_the_customer
> > which is IMHO needed quite often.
> 
> Perhaps it's wise to just use a separate repository on the same 
> repository. Maybe make it more convenient using some little
> shell functions. I'm also using that for backup purposes, where
> the repo lies outside the to-be-backed-up tree.

I considered using a separate repository, too, but having "all in one" feels somehow better. It allows me to push everything to a single remote repo and compare the snapshots to ordinal commits, etc.

I let the snapshot point to the current head, which is where I get a problem now: git show-ref HEAD returns nothing, git show-ref --head returns HEAD and all branches and tags. Isn't it a bug? How can I get the HEAD reference? I'm using git version 1.7.2.3 on cygwin.