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From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: master^ is not a local branch -- huh?!?
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:35:08 +0100
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Heya,

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 21:27, Jacob Helwig <jacob.helwig@gmail.com> wr=
ote:
> 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 pushe=
d to
>> anywhere. =A0So how is it possible that I have a non-local branch?
>
> master^ is a commit (the first parent of master), not a branch (local
> or otherwise).

Perhaps we should change the message to say "not a branch" if it's not
a reference to a remote branch? Or simply changing the text to "not a
(local) branch"?

--=20
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier