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From: Jacob Helwig <jacob.helwig@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: master^ is not a local branch -- huh?!?
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:38:13 -0800
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On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:35, Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> =
wrote:
> Heya,
>
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 21:27, Jacob Helwig <jacob.helwig@gmail.com> =
wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:20, Ron1 <ron1@flownet.com> wrote:
>>> This is a test repository which has never been pulled from nor push=
ed to
>>> anywhere. =C2=A0So how is it possible that I have a non-local branc=
h?
>>
>> master^ is a commit (the first parent of master), not a branch (loca=
l
>> or otherwise).
>
> Perhaps we should change the message to say "not a branch" if it's no=
t
> a reference to a remote branch? Or simply changing the text to "not a
> (local) branch"?
>

I think "not a branch" would be better than "not a (local) branch".
In my mind, the latter reads almost exactly the same as the current
message.