From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] docs/checkout: clarify what "non-branch" means Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:20:56 -0700 Message-ID: <7v8wm3c1cn.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <20090413110947.GA15647@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20090413112104.GE15982@coredump.intra.peff.net> <7vmyakh5wc.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <200904132340.36191.mlevedahl@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jeff King , git@vger.kernel.org To: Mark Levedahl X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Apr 14 06:23:12 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LtaAx-0008CB-Ir for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 14 Apr 2009 06:23:12 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751166AbZDNEVH (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:21:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750996AbZDNEVH (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:21:07 -0400 Received: from a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([207.106.133.19]:43083 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750746AbZDNEVG (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:21:06 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07A0CAAF34; Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:21:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B1C17AAF31; Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:20:58 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <200904132340.36191.mlevedahl@gmail.com> (Mark Levedahl's message of "Mon, 13 Apr 2009 23:40:35 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: AA538870-28AB-11DE-B3A2-C121C5FC92D5-77302942!a-sasl-fastnet.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Mark Levedahl writes: > I think the question being posed is: Would unifying branch names across all > git commands (i.e., always accepting refs/heads/master as naming branch > master, and accepting master when that is unambiguous) sufficiently benefit > new users... My knee-jerk reaction is that what you are saying is backwards. When do new people even need to know about refs/heads vs refs/tags with modern Porcelain command set?