From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 21:56:55 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Teach "git checkout" to use git-show-ref
X-Git-Tag: v1.4.4-rc1~43^2~19^2~7
X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=305e22c36e674924de6decb29e8a4c22292b5054;p=git.git

Teach "git checkout" to use git-show-ref

That way, it doesn't care how the refs are stored any more

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
---

diff --git a/git-checkout.sh b/git-checkout.sh
index 580a9e8a2..f03620b05 100755
--- a/git-checkout.sh
+++ b/git-checkout.sh
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ while [ "$#" != "0" ]; do
 		shift
 		[ -z "$newbranch" ] &&
 			die "git checkout: -b needs a branch name"
-		[ -e "$GIT_DIR/refs/heads/$newbranch" ] &&
+		git-show-ref --verify --quiet -- "refs/heads/$newbranch" &&
 			die "git checkout: branch $newbranch already exists"
 		git-check-ref-format "heads/$newbranch" ||
 			die "git checkout: we do not like '$newbranch' as a branch name."
@@ -51,7 +51,8 @@ while [ "$#" != "0" ]; do
 			fi
 			new="$rev"
 			new_name="$arg^0"
-			if [ -f "$GIT_DIR/refs/heads/$arg" ]; then
+			if git-show-ref --verify --quiet -- "refs/heads/$arg"
+			then
 				branch="$arg"
 			fi
 		elif rev=$(git-rev-parse --verify "$arg^{tree}" 2>/dev/null)