{"thread":{"id":"16208","subject":"[PATCH] Documentation: Mention that 'bisect' is reserved branch name","startedAt":"2008-11-07T10:01:54Z","lastAt":"2008-11-07T10:23:18Z","messageCount":3,"participants":["Abhijit Bhopatkar","Teemu Likonen"],"isPatch":true,"patchVersion":1,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"95111","messageId":"2fcfa6df0811070201g75bfe659x38a4f14b1cf793c6@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"16208","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[PATCH] Documentation: Mention that 'bisect' is reserved branch name","fromName":"Abhijit Bhopatkar","fromEmail":"bain@devslashzero.com","sentAt":"2008-11-07T10:01:54Z","receivedAt":"2008-11-07T10:01:54Z","isPatch":true,"sender":{"key":"bain@devslashzero.com","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/3f9bfde580be8d4de9df5a129387d9069d43eb1a65d745c583de9dfe9d97ebc8?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"\"git bisect\" uses 'bisect' branch to carry out it's operations.\nHowever \"git branch\" documentation does mention it.\nAdd a note that 'bisect' can not be used as generic branch\nname by the user.\n\nSigned-off-by: Abhijit Bhopatkar <bain@devslashzero.com>\n\n---\ndiff --git a/Documentation/git-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-branch.txt\nindex 6103d62..2ea99fd 100644\n--- a/Documentation/git-branch.txt\n+++ b/Documentation/git-branch.txt\n@@ -203,6 +203,9 @@ but different purposes:\n - `--no-merged` is used to find branches which are candidates for merging\n   into HEAD, since those branches are not fully contained by HEAD.\n\n+The branch name 'bisect' is reserved for use by \"git-bisect\" and can not be\n+used as a generic branch name.\n+\n Author\n ------\n Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and Junio C Hamano\n<gitster@pobox.com>\n"},{"id":"95112","messageId":"87wsff269h.fsf@iki.fi","threadId":"16208","inReplyTo":"2fcfa6df0811070201g75bfe659x38a4f14b1cf793c6@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Mention that 'bisect' is reserved branch name","fromName":"Teemu Likonen","fromEmail":"tlikonen@iki.fi","sentAt":"2008-11-07T10:13:30Z","receivedAt":"2008-11-07T10:13:30Z","isPatch":true,"sender":{"key":"tlikonen@iki.fi","avatar":null},"body":"Abhijit Bhopatkar (2008-11-07 15:31 +0530) wrote:\n\n> \"git bisect\" uses 'bisect' branch to carry out it's operations.\n> However \"git branch\" documentation does mention it.\n> Add a note that 'bisect' can not be used as generic branch\n> name by the user.\n\nHmm...\n\n    commit 634f246444e6a1675e351f31362e6a375dc44f70\n    Author: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>\n    Date:   2008-05-23 01:28:57 +0200\n\n        bisect: use a detached HEAD to bisect\n"},{"id":"95113","messageId":"2fcfa6df0811070223w5631af5drdc34e6ea51bc566e@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"16208","inReplyTo":"87wsff269h.fsf@iki.fi","subject":"Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Mention that 'bisect' is reserved branch name","fromName":"Abhijit Bhopatkar","fromEmail":"bain@devslashzero.com","sentAt":"2008-11-07T10:23:18Z","receivedAt":"2008-11-07T10:23:18Z","isPatch":true,"sender":{"key":"bain@devslashzero.com","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/3f9bfde580be8d4de9df5a129387d9069d43eb1a65d745c583de9dfe9d97ebc8?d=mp&s=160"},"body":">> \"git bisect\" uses 'bisect' branch to carry out it's operations.\n>> However \"git branch\" documentation does mention it.\n>> Add a note that 'bisect' can not be used as generic branch\n>> name by the user.\n> Hmm...\n>    commit 634f246444e6a1675e351f31362e6a375dc44f70\n>    Author: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>\n>    Date:   2008-05-23 01:28:57 +0200\n>\n>        bisect: use a detached HEAD to bisect\nCool, didn't know that ...\n\nSubmitted patch must be ignored\nThanks\n\nAbhijit\n"}]}