SYNOPSIS
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[verse]
-'git-show-ref' [-q|--quiet] [--verify] [-h|--head] [-d|--dereference]
+'git show-ref' [-q|--quiet] [--verify] [-h|--head] [-d|--dereference]
[-s|--hash] [--abbrev] [--tags] [--heads] [--] <pattern>...
-'git-show-ref' --exclude-existing[=pattern]
+'git show-ref' --exclude-existing[=pattern]
DESCRIPTION
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--exclude-existing::
--exclude-existing=pattern::
- Make git-show-ref act as a filter that reads refs from stdin of the
+ Make 'git-show-ref' act as a filter that reads refs from stdin of the
form "^(?:<anything>\s)?<refname>(?:\^\{\})?$" and performs the
following actions on each:
(1) strip "^{}" at the end of line if any;
(5) otherwise output the line.
-<pattern>::
+<pattern>...::
Show references matching one or more patterns.
will only match the exact branch called "master".
-If nothing matches, linkgit:git-show-ref[1] will return an error code of 1,
+If nothing matches, 'git-show-ref' will return an error code of 1,
and in the case of verification, it will show an error message.
For scripting, you can ask it to be quiet with the "--quiet" flag, which
allows you to do things like
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- git-show-ref --quiet --verify -- "refs/heads/$headname" ||
+ git show-ref --quiet --verify -- "refs/heads/$headname" ||
echo "$headname is not a valid branch"
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