From: Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 02:24:35 GMT
Subject: Re: A couple branch questions
Message-ID: <18355.42595.377377.433309@lisa.zopyra.com>
In-Reply-To: <ee77f5c20802131745p23aa1db3j47207f1e6538b0e@mail.gmail.com>

On Wednesday, February 13, 2008 at 17:45:16 (-0800) David Symonds writes:
>On Feb 13, 2008 5:39 PM, Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 1) git-branch -d <branchname> complains if <branchname> hasn't been
>> merged to HEAD. Shouldn't it really only complain if <branchname>
>> hasn't been merged into any local branch? i.e., as long as
>> <branchname> has been merged, why care to which branch?
>
>It's easy to mistype branch names, and you typically only delete them
>after you merge them into your current branch. If you're really sure,
>just pass -D instead of -d.

How does that answer the question posed?


Bill