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From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Subject: Re: Commiting automatically
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Maaartin <grajcar1@seznam.cz> writes:

> # the first parent should be autocom
> parent1="-p $(git show-ref -s refs/heads/autocom)"
> # needed for the very first use
> test -f .git/refs/heads/autocom || parent1=""

Don't use the content of .git/refs/ directly. Git can pack them, and
you can have a branch autocom packed in .git/info/refs without having it in
.git/refs/*

perhaps

parent1=$(git show-ref -s refs/heads/autocom)
if [ "$parent1" != "" ]; then
	parent1="-p $parent1"
fi

?

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Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/