Re: Bizarre behavior on git commit

From: Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com>
Date: May 5, 2010, 16:52 UTC
Message-ID: <t2ga038bef51005050952u3370cf68pa45496e56a4adb7b@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <s2t6f5a4e781005042246sb9ef3d48j134b22b5b41133ed@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 10:46 PM, Dan Loewenherz <dloewenherz@gmail.com> wrote:

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> I'm running into a weird issue in a specific repo where "git show-ref"
> usage is being displayed after invocating "git commit".
>
> E.g.
> $ git commit -m "my commit message"
> usage: git show-ref [-q|--quiet] [--verify] [--head]
> ...

This may or may not be the case for you but I did have a bit of a face-palm issue a while back because I was tinkering with a __git_ps1 bash script and forgot. I was actually getting output from one git command or another and couldn't figure out why until I eventually figured out that the commands that were complaining were used in my __git_ps1 script. This was mainly when I was doing slightly unexpected things (at least as far as __git_ps1 was concerned, e.g during an interactive rebase ).

Its probably not your problem but just double check with 'echo "$PS1"' from your shell.