Merge branch 'jc/maint-1.7.3-checkout-describe' into maint

[git.git] / refs.c

diff --git a/refs.c b/refs.c
index b10419a69815ef1c005915f3606c992659e60c77..3a8789d3857d17a3a0a94ba2750e9f22857b8667 100644 (file)
--- a/refs.c
+++ b/refs.c
@@ -1826,6 +1826,12 @@ int update_ref(const char *action, const char *refname,
        return 0;
 }
 
+int ref_exists(char *refname)
+{
+       unsigned char sha1[20];
+       return !!resolve_ref(refname, sha1, 1, NULL);
+}
+
 struct ref *find_ref_by_name(const struct ref *list, const char *name)
 {
        for ( ; list; list = list->next)