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Revision 48949a18c852e5119827278c37f791921e640688 authored by Christian Couder on 16 April 2008, 02:09:49 UTC, committed by Junio C Hamano on 16 April 2008, 05:42:19 UTC 
bisect: squelch "fatal: ref HEAD not a symref" misleading message
 
To get the current HEAD when we start bisecting using for example
"git bisect start", we first try "git symbolic-ref HEAD" to get a
nice name, and if it fails, we fall back to "git rev-parse
--verify HEAD".

The problem is that when "git symbolic-ref HEAD" fails, it
displays "fatal: ref HEAD not a symref", so it looks like "git
bisect start" failed and does not accept detached HEAD, even if
in fact it worked fine.

This patch adds "-q" option to the "git symbolic-ref" call to
get rid of the misleading error message.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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generate-cmdlist.sh 
#!/bin/sh

echo "/* Automatically generated by $0 */
struct cmdname_help
{
    char name[16];
    char help[80];
};

static struct cmdname_help common_cmds[] = {"

sed -n -e 's/^git-\([^ 	]*\)[ 	].* common.*/\1/p' command-list.txt |
sort |
while read cmd
do
     sed -n '
     /NAME/,/git-'"$cmd"'/H
     ${
            x
            s/.*git-'"$cmd"' - \(.*\)/  {"'"$cmd"'", "\1"},/
	    p
     }' "Documentation/git-$cmd.txt"
done
echo "};"
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