From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:29:03 GMT
Subject: Re: remote branches, and branch names in general
Message-ID: <20090304102903.GA16123@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <76718490903031132v592b8368p6355ea2bd0cda4ae@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 02:32:00PM -0500, Jay Soffian wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> > Yes, the "branch" command deals only with creating things in refs/heads,
> 
> Unless given -r, in which case it looks in refs/remotes, or -a, in
> which case it looks in refs/heads and refs/remotes. :-)

OK, fair enough. ;P

But I think the lesson to be learned is that there is a difference
between arbitrary ref lookup (which you might use with log, show, diff,
or even as the branching-off point for branch) and specialized commands
which assume you are working in some part of the ref hierarchy (heads,
tags, or even remotes).

-Peff