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From: Peter Wu <lekensteyn@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [BUG] `git branch --contains ID name` creates branch "name"
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 19:57:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <679787987.uZRbjA7AMj@al> (raw)

Hi,

I was trying to check whether a certain branch contained a commit and ran:

     git branch --contains ddc150f7a33ae0c9cb16eaac3641abc00f56316f master

This resulted in:

    fatal: A branch named 'master' already exists.
When "name" does not exist, this command creates a branch. I expect this 
command to search the mentioned branch, not trying to create it. The manual 
page of git-branch(1) does not mention such special behavior either.

Git version 1.8.1.2

Regards,
Peter

             reply	other threads:[~2013-01-30 18:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-30 18:57 Peter Wu [this message]
2013-01-31  6:43 ` [PATCH 0/2] improve "git branch --contains=<commit> <pattern>" Jeff King
2013-01-31  6:45   ` [PATCH 1/2] docs: clarify git-branch --list behavior Jeff King
2013-02-01  0:20     ` Eric Sunshine
2013-02-01  0:37       ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-01  5:06         ` Jeff King
2013-02-01  5:42           ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-31  6:46   ` [PATCH 2/2] branch: let branch filters imply --list Jeff King
2013-01-31 16:13     ` Peter Wu
2013-01-31 17:02       ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-31 15:53   ` [PATCH 0/2] improve "git branch --contains=<commit> <pattern>" Junio C Hamano

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