From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] builtin-branch - allow deleting a fully specified branch-name
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:39:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vhc0x1gvh.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1239323335-4684-1-git-send-email-mlevedahl@gmail.com> (Mark Levedahl's message of "Thu, 9 Apr 2009 20:28:55 -0400")
Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com> writes:
> This change allows, for instance
> git branch -d refs/heads/foo
> to succeed. Without this patch, the code just assumes that the
> given branch name should be appended to "refs/heads" or
> "refs/remotes", thus attempting (and failing) in the above case
> to delete "refs/heads/refs/heads/foo"
Your logic is broken.
Why doesn't the user simply say "git branch -d foo"? The command takes
"the branch name", not "arbitrary ref name".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-10 0:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-10 0:28 [PATCH] builtin-branch - allow deleting a fully specified branch-name Mark Levedahl
2009-04-10 0:39 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2009-04-10 1:19 ` Mark Levedahl
2009-04-10 3:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-04-11 17:01 ` Mark Levedahl
2009-04-12 7:20 ` Jeff King
2009-04-12 8:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-04-13 8:56 ` Jeff King
2009-04-13 9:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-04-13 11:09 ` Jeff King
2009-04-13 11:11 ` [PATCH 1/5] doc: clarify --no-track option Jeff King
2009-04-13 11:11 ` [PATCH 2/5] doc: refer to tracking configuration as "upstream" Jeff King
2009-04-13 11:18 ` [PATCH 3/5] doc/checkout: refer to git-branch(1) as appropriate Jeff King
2009-04-13 11:19 ` [PATCH 4/5] doc/checkout: split checkout and branch creation in synopsis Jeff King
[not found] ` <fabb9a1e0904130613g5b664706jb6a3c29107ac1fc9@mail.gmail.com>
2009-04-13 13:19 ` Jeff King
2009-04-13 13:21 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-04-13 11:21 ` [PATCH 5/5] docs/checkout: clarify what "non-branch" means Jeff King
2009-04-13 16:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-04-14 3:40 ` Mark Levedahl
2009-04-14 4:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-04-14 11:36 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-04-15 18:00 ` Jeff King
2009-04-15 17:58 ` Jeff King
2009-04-13 10:57 ` [PATCH] builtin-branch - allow deleting a fully specified branch-name Jeff King
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