From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Deskin Miller <deskinm@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] Teach @{-1} to git merge
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:24:21 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7veixkpi4a.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86d4c5e00902262027y13b19eb7nf89a45e83b986801@mail.gmail.com> (Deskin Miller's message of "Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:27:05 -0500")
Deskin Miller <deskinm@gmail.com> writes:
> I did 'git branch -M @{-1}' yesterday and ended up renaming my branch
> to refs/heads/@{-1}. Personally my usage felt like it should work
> (but of course I think that); curious to know what others think, if
> this is a bug.
The @{-n} notation is supposed to be usable anywhere you would write a
branch name and should behave as if you wrote the name itself. And 'git
branch -M <name> [<name>]' does expect a branch name, not a random
extended SHA-1 expression.
I'd say it is a bug.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-27 5:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-14 7:08 [PATCH] teach the new "@{-1} syntax to "git branch" Junio C Hamano
2009-02-14 7:11 ` Jay Soffian
2009-02-14 7:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-14 9:37 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] Teach the " Junio C Hamano
2009-02-14 9:39 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] Teach @{-1} to git merge Junio C Hamano
2009-02-14 22:52 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-02-15 2:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-15 2:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-15 9:24 ` Nanako Shiraishi
2009-02-15 10:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-15 11:21 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-02-16 4:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-16 10:41 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-02-16 16:40 ` Jay Soffian
2009-02-26 0:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-26 10:18 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-02-27 4:27 ` Deskin Miller
2009-02-27 5:24 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2009-02-27 6:10 ` [PATCH] git-branch: a detached HEAD and branch called HEAD are different Junio C Hamano
2009-02-27 6:12 ` [PATCH] "git branch -M @{-1}" Junio C Hamano
2009-02-27 6:49 ` Junio C Hamano
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