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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Jonathan Nieder" <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
	"Conrad Irwin" <conrad.irwin@gmail.com>,
	"☂Josh Chia (谢任中)" <joshchia@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, "Soeren Sonnenburg" <sonne@debian.org>
Subject: Re: git branch -M" regression in 1.7.7?
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:09:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2bory5vmm.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v39day0fb.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Sat, 26 Nov 2011 14:38:16 -0800")

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> I havn't look at the patch (not a regression between 1.7.7 and 1.7.8 so
> not a candidate for the remainder of this cycle), but I like the above
> description quite a lot. I think Linus's "git reset --sane" which was
> initially called "git reset --merge" but ended up as "git reset --keep"
> should have been spelled as "checkout -B <current-branch>" from the
> beginning.

It is more convenient if you don't have to spell out the name of the
current branch (which fails if you aren't on a branch).

Andreas.

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-26 23:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-26  0:36 git branch -M" regression in 1.7.7? ☂Josh Chia (谢任中)
2011-11-26  2:30 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-11-26  6:52   ` [PATCH] Test renaming a branch to itself Conrad Irwin
2011-11-26  6:59     ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-11-26  7:05   ` git branch -M" regression in 1.7.7? Conrad Irwin
2011-11-26  8:54     ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-11-26 22:38       ` Junio C Hamano
2011-11-26 23:09         ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2011-11-28 19:38   ` Junio C Hamano

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