rebase: consistent error messages for staged and unstaged changes.

diff --git a/builtin-symbolic-ref.c b/builtin-symbolic-ref.c
index bfc78bb3f6eff2f8e39649b9649ae7263f143ad9..ca855a5eb239f4dadccd53369e38db4e78b1d13f 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin-symbolic-ref.c
+++ b/builtin-symbolic-ref.c
@@ -36,7 +36,8 @@ int cmd_symbolic_ref(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
        };
 
        git_config(git_default_config, NULL);
-       argc = parse_options(argc, argv, options, git_symbolic_ref_usage, 0);
+       argc = parse_options(argc, argv, prefix, options,
+                            git_symbolic_ref_usage, 0);
        if (msg &&!*msg)
                die("Refusing to perform update with empty message");
        switch (argc) {
@@ -44,6 +45,9 @@ int cmd_symbolic_ref(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
                check_symref(argv[0], quiet);
                break;
        case 2:
+               if (!strcmp(argv[0], "HEAD") &&
+                   prefixcmp(argv[1], "refs/"))
+                       die("Refusing to point HEAD outside of refs/");
                create_symref(argv[0], argv[1], msg);
                break;
        default: