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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: git push bug?
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:58:22 +0100 (BST)
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Hi,

On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Steffen Prohaska wrote:

> On Oct 18, 2007, at 6:21 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> > 
> > > Seems like it is a bit too easy to make mistakes here. Why can I delete
> > > a branch with :linus but not create one with linus:linus?
> > 
> > I wonder why you bother with the colon at all.  Just
> > 
> > 	git push <remote> linus
> > 
> > and be done with it.  The colon is only there to play interesting games,
> > not something as simple as "push this branch" or "push this tag".
> 
> But you need a full refspec starting with 'refs/heads/' if you want to
> create a new branch on the remote side.

No.  Not if the name is the same on the local side.

Ciao,
Dscho