Enable stricter reference checking by requiring an exact ref path.
Aside from returning an error code of 1, it will also print an error
- message if '--quiet' was not specified.
+ message if `--quiet` was not specified.
--abbrev[=<n>]::
-q::
--quiet::
- Do not print any results to stdout. When combined with '--verify' this
+ Do not print any results to stdout. When combined with `--verify` this
can be used to silently check if a reference exists.
--exclude-existing[=<pattern>]::
...
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-EXAMPLE
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+EXAMPLES
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To show all references called "master", whether tags or heads or anything
else, and regardless of how deep in the reference naming hierarchy they are,
This will show "refs/heads/master" but also "refs/remote/other-repo/master",
if such references exists.
-When using the '--verify' flag, the command requires an exact path:
+When using the `--verify` flag, the command requires an exact path:
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git show-ref --verify refs/heads/master