git-pull: disallow implicit merging to detached HEAD

[git.git] / Documentation / git-symbolic-ref.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-symbolic-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-symbolic-ref.txt
index 1e818bb02dcad32095e5e14236d177360fe0f3a1..fec3b4f64ae847628e67904876d08533be85c9c7 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-symbolic-ref.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-symbolic-ref.txt
@@ -44,6 +44,10 @@ cumbersome.  On some platforms, `ln -sf` does not even work as
 advertised (horrors).  Therefore symbolic links are now deprecated
 and symbolic refs are used by default.
 
+git-symbolic-ref will exit with status 0 if the contents of the
+symbolic ref were printed correctly, with status 1 if the requested
+name is not a symbolic ref, or 128 if another error occurs.
+
 Author
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 Written by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>