Alex Riesen writes: > git rev-parse --revs-only ref1 ref2 ref3 ...? That stops when it sees an invalid ref and doesn't check the rest. Also if you give it a string of 40 hex digits it will print it out whether it's a valid object ID or not. Paul. - 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