From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] push: use same rules as git-rev-parse to resolve refspecs Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 00:28:40 -0700 Message-ID: <7vlk9nwvdj.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <119350380778-git-send-email-prohaska@zib.de> <11935038081211-git-send-email-prohaska@zib.de> <11935038081650-git-send-email-prohaska@zib.de> <1193503808519-git-send-email-prohaska@zib.de> <11935038083369-git-send-email-prohaska@zib.de> <11935038084055-git-send-email-prohaska@zib.de> <11935038084130-git-send-email-prohaska@zib.de> <11935038083116-git-send-email-prohaska@zib.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Steffen Prohaska X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Oct 28 08:29:17 2007 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 1Im2aA-0006YK-B5 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 28 Oct 2007 08:29:14 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750997AbXJ1H2q (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Oct 2007 03:28:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751004AbXJ1H2q (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Oct 2007 03:28:46 -0400 Received: from rune.pobox.com ([208.210.124.79]:46211 "EHLO rune.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750945AbXJ1H2p (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Oct 2007 03:28:45 -0400 Received: from rune (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rune.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C508151704; Sun, 28 Oct 2007 03:29:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (ip68-225-240-77.oc.oc.cox.net [68.225.240.77]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by rune.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1AB0151703; Sun, 28 Oct 2007 03:29:04 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Steffen Prohaska writes: > This commit changes the rules for resolving refspecs to match the > rules for resolving refs in rev-parse. git-rev-parse uses clear rules > to resolve a short ref to its full name, which are well documented. > The rules for resolving refspecs documented in git-send-pack were > less strict and harder to understand. This commit replaces them by > the rules of git-rev-parse. > > The unified rules are easier to understand and better resolve ambiguous > cases. You can now push from a repository containing several branches > ending on the same short name. > > Note, this breaks existing setups. For example "master" will no longer > resolve to "origin/master". It may "break" but I think it is a good change.