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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: git checkout creates strange '(null)'-branch
Date: Tue, 08 May 2012 14:10:53 +0200
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Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com> writes:

> +test_expect_failure 'committing to empty submodule does not create
> (null) branch' '
> +       test_create_repo empty-repo &&
> +       git submodule add ./empty-repo empty-submodule &&
> +       (
> +               cd empty-submodule &&
> +               echo "foo" > bar.txt &&
> +               git add bar.txt &&
> +               git commit -m. &&
> +               ! (git show-ref | grep "(null)")

You don't need the parens, since ! operates on the whole pipeline.  (And
for grouping the shell language uses { } instead of ( ).)

Andreas.

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