On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > "Nikolai Weibull" <now@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > > I'm obviously doing something wrong, but in git 1.5.0.4 > > > > % git check-ref-format abc > > % echo $? > > 1 > > > > What am I missing here? > > If you are trying to see if abc is a valid branch name, try refs/heads/abc. .. and before anybody wonders why it wants the "fully qualified" name, it's because "abc" on its own is ambiguous. Is it a _tag_ called "abc", or a branch, or what? That explains why - if you really want to verify a ref-name, you need to give the full name.. On the other hand, if you don't care, and you just want "is this a valid commit name", use sha1=$(git rev-parse --verify "$name"^0) || exit or similar. It won't care if "name" is ambiguous or not, it will just try to parse it as a revision expression (with the "^0" there to force a tag to be converted to a commit-name, or force an error if the SHA1 is not a valid commit). Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html