From: Deskin Miller <deskinm@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
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 23:27:05 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86d4c5e00902262027y13b19eb7nf89a45e83b986801@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0902142332210.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 17:52, Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> I scanned command-list.txt briefly, and could verify (by testing rather
> than code inspection) that
>
> - bundle works as expected (thanks to dwim_ref()),
>
> - fast-export (like bundle, dwim_ref() makes it work),
>
> - so does filter-branch, thanks to rev-parse --symbolic-full-name
> resolving @{-<n>} correctly,
>
> - log and reflog also substitute @{-<n>} by the branch name,
>
> - update-ref does _not_ interpret @{-<n>} as the branch name (which I
> find okay, as update-ref is plumbing), but instead creates the file
> '.git/@{-<n>}' (which I think is a bug).
>
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.
Deskin Miller
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-27 4:28 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 [this message]
2009-02-27 5:24 ` Junio C Hamano
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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