bisect: squelch "fatal: ref HEAD not a symref" misleading message

To get the current HEAD when we start bisecting using for example
"git bisect start", we first try "git symbolic-ref HEAD" to get a
nice name, and if it fails, we fall back to "git rev-parse
--verify HEAD".

The problem is that when "git symbolic-ref HEAD" fails, it
displays "fatal: ref HEAD not a symref", so it looks like "git
bisect start" failed and does not accept detached HEAD, even if
in fact it worked fine.

This patch adds "-q" option to the "git symbolic-ref" call to
get rid of the misleading error message.

Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/git-bisect.sh b/git-bisect.sh
index c99ffee122f9d4bd714fb3e6278cafd3e219891b..dd91bd5bc7b71290adea7662a937e31858f4fcd3 100755 (executable)
--- a/git-bisect.sh
+++ b/git-bisect.sh
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ bisect_start() {
        # Verify HEAD. If we were bisecting before this, reset to the
        # top-of-line master first!
        #
-       head=$(GIT_DIR="$GIT_DIR" git symbolic-ref HEAD) ||
+       head=$(GIT_DIR="$GIT_DIR" git symbolic-ref -q HEAD) ||
        head=$(GIT_DIR="$GIT_DIR" git rev-parse --verify HEAD) ||
        die "Bad HEAD - I need a HEAD"
        case "$head" in