manual: Fix example finding commits referencing given content.

diff --git a/git-rebase--interactive.sh b/git-rebase--interactive.sh
index 8568a4fd421d7e60512f0dfc37392bded07419b1..050140d666b2d68ab91f6d41d64779178e99c70b 100755 (executable)
--- a/git-rebase--interactive.sh
+++ b/git-rebase--interactive.sh
@@ -317,13 +317,18 @@ do_next () {
        else
                NEWHEAD=$(git rev-parse HEAD)
        fi &&
-       message="$GIT_REFLOG_ACTION: $HEADNAME onto $SHORTONTO)" &&
-       git update-ref -m "$message" $HEADNAME $NEWHEAD $OLDHEAD &&
-       git symbolic-ref HEAD $HEADNAME && {
+       case $HEADNAME in
+       refs/*)
+               message="$GIT_REFLOG_ACTION: $HEADNAME onto $SHORTONTO)" &&
+               git update-ref -m "$message" $HEADNAME $NEWHEAD $OLDHEAD &&
+               git symbolic-ref HEAD $HEADNAME
+               ;;
+       esac && {
                test ! -f "$DOTEST"/verbose ||
                        git diff --stat $(cat "$DOTEST"/head)..HEAD
        } &&
        rm -rf "$DOTEST" &&
+       git gc --auto &&
        warn "Successfully rebased and updated $HEADNAME."
 
        exit
@@ -365,7 +370,11 @@ do
 
                HEADNAME=$(cat "$DOTEST"/head-name)
                HEAD=$(cat "$DOTEST"/head)
-               git symbolic-ref HEAD $HEADNAME &&
+               case $HEADNAME in
+               refs/*)
+                       git symbolic-ref HEAD $HEADNAME
+                       ;;
+               esac &&
                output git reset --hard $HEAD &&
                rm -rf "$DOTEST"
                exit
@@ -443,8 +452,8 @@ do
                test -z "$ONTO" && ONTO=$UPSTREAM
 
                : > "$DOTEST"/interactive || die "Could not mark as interactive"
-               git symbolic-ref HEAD > "$DOTEST"/head-name ||
-                       die "Could not get HEAD"
+               git symbolic-ref HEAD > "$DOTEST"/head-name 2> /dev/null ||
+                       echo "detached HEAD" > "$DOTEST"/head-name
 
                echo $HEAD > "$DOTEST"/head
                echo $UPSTREAM > "$DOTEST"/upstream