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authorChristian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>2006-09-26 07:23:37 +0200
committerJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2006-09-25 23:54:40 -0700
commit9c7b0b3fc46e552bde1a65cd1950c3634854332b (patch)
tree7738ab6f8365a842c6862b6726a6fc9e70e08e68 /git-branch.sh
parent4dafd7d2444051fe0e1eb17e9ded503ad7d9dd25 (diff)
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Remove empty ref directories that prevent creating a ref.
This patch also adds test cases from Linus and Junio. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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-rwxr-xr-xgit-branch.sh10
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/git-branch.sh b/git-branch.sh
index e0501ec23..4f31903d6 100755
--- a/git-branch.sh
+++ b/git-branch.sh
@@ -112,6 +112,16 @@ rev=$(git-rev-parse --verify "$head") || exit
git-check-ref-format "heads/$branchname" ||
die "we do not like '$branchname' as a branch name."
+if [ -d "$GIT_DIR/refs/heads/$branchname" ]
+then
+ for refdir in `cd "$GIT_DIR" && \
+ find "refs/heads/$branchname" -type d | sort -r`
+ do
+ rmdir "$GIT_DIR/$refdir" || \
+ die "Could not delete '$refdir', there may still be a ref there."
+ done
+fi
+
if [ -e "$GIT_DIR/refs/heads/$branchname" ]
then
if test '' = "$force"