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bisect: squelch "fatal: ref HEAD not a symref" misleading message

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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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Christian Couder 2008-04-16 04:09:49 +02:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
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@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ bisect_start() {
# Verify HEAD. If we were bisecting before this, reset to the
# top-of-line master first!
#
head=$(GIT_DIR="$GIT_DIR" git symbolic-ref HEAD) ||
head=$(GIT_DIR="$GIT_DIR" git symbolic-ref -q HEAD) ||
head=$(GIT_DIR="$GIT_DIR" git rev-parse --verify HEAD) ||
die "Bad HEAD - I need a HEAD"
case "$head" in