# The refs should be updated if their heads were rewritten
git rev-parse --no-flags --revs-only --symbolic-full-name \
- --default HEAD "$@" > "$tempdir"/raw-heads || exit
-sed -e '/^^/d' "$tempdir"/raw-heads >"$tempdir"/heads
+ --default HEAD "$@" > "$tempdir"/raw-refs || exit
+while read ref
+do
+ case "$ref" in ^?*) continue ;; esac
+
+ if git rev-parse --verify "$ref"^0 >/dev/null 2>&1
+ then
+ echo "$ref"
+ else
+ warn "WARNING: not rewriting '$ref' (not a committish)"
+ fi
+done >"$tempdir"/heads <"$tempdir"/raw-refs
test -s "$tempdir"/heads ||
die "You must specify a ref to rewrite."
die "Could not get the commits"
commits=$(wc -l <../revs | tr -d " ")
-test $commits -eq 0 && die "Found nothing to rewrite"
+test $commits -eq 0 && die_with_status 2 "Found nothing to rewrite"
# Rewrite the commits
report_progress ()