Add git-symbolic-ref
This adds the counterpart of git-update-ref that lets you read
and create "symbolic refs". By default it uses a symbolic link
to represent ".git/HEAD -> refs/heads/master", but it can be compiled
to use the textfile symbolic ref.
The places that did 'readlink .git/HEAD' and 'ln -s refs/heads/blah
.git/HEAD' have been converted to use new git-symbolic-ref command, so
that they can deal with either implementation.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junio@twinsun.com>
diff --git a/git-bisect.sh b/git-bisect.sh
index 8dc77c9..1ab2f18 100755
--- a/git-bisect.sh
+++ b/git-bisect.sh
@@ -38,7 +38,8 @@
# Verify HEAD. If we were bisecting before this, reset to the
# top-of-line master first!
#
- head=$(readlink $GIT_DIR/HEAD) || die "Bad HEAD - I need a symlink"
+ head=$(GIT_DIR="$GIT_DIR" git-symbolic-ref HEAD) ||
+ die "Bad HEAD - I need a symbolic ref"
case "$head" in
refs/heads/bisect*)
git checkout master || exit
@@ -46,7 +47,7 @@
refs/heads/*)
;;
*)
- die "Bad HEAD - strange symlink"
+ die "Bad HEAD - strange symbolic ref"
;;
esac
@@ -135,7 +136,7 @@
echo "$rev" > "$GIT_DIR/refs/heads/new-bisect"
git checkout new-bisect || exit
mv "$GIT_DIR/refs/heads/new-bisect" "$GIT_DIR/refs/heads/bisect" &&
- ln -sf refs/heads/bisect "$GIT_DIR/HEAD"
+ GIT_DIR="$GIT_DIR" git-symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/bisect
git-show-branch "$rev"
}
