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From: "Nikolai Weibull" <now@bitwi.se>
Subject: Re: git-check-ref-format returns 1 for valid branch names
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 21:42:59 +0100
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On 3/22/07, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> "Nikolai Weibull" <now@bitwi.se> writes:
>
> > I'm obviously doing something wrong, but in git 1.5.0.4
> >
> > % git check-ref-format abc
> > % echo $?
> > 1
> >
> > What am I missing here?
>
> If you are trying to see if abc is a valid branch name, try refs/heads/abc.

Thanks.  I just saw an example in git-checkout (where it's testing
"heads/$newbranch").

  nikolai