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From: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-bisect.sh: don't accidentally override existing branch "bisect"
Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 14:27:22 +0200
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Cc: "Gerrit Pape" <pape@smarden.org>, git@vger.kernel.org,
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Le jeudi 1 mai 2008, Richard Quirk a =E9crit :
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:30 PM, Christian Couder
>
> <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> wrote:
> >  Minor nitpick: you may use:
> >
> >  git show-ref -q {new-,}bisect
> >
> >  instead of:
> >
> >
> >  git show-ref bisect > /dev/null ||
> >         git show-ref new-bisect > /dev/null
>
> Careful with that - it's a bashism and would fail if /bin/sh is dash.
> ie it would say that a branch called literally "{new-,}bisect" does
> not exist, even if new-bisect and bisect do.

You are right. Thanks.
So what about a plain:

git show-ref -q bisect new-bisect

Regards,
Christian.