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                jasonrudolph
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              April 15, 2014 12:09
            
              
                Debugging "Reference update failed" error when creating a branch via the GitHub Git Refs API
              
          
        
      
        
  
      
    A curl example to help explain this Stack Overflow question related to creating a new branch via the GitHub Git Refs API:
Get the SHA of latest commit on the master branch

curl -i https://api.github.com/repos/jasonrudolph/sandbox/git/refs/heads/master \
    -H "Authorization: token REDACTED"

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
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