Re: ref name troubles, was Re: [PATCH v2] Introduce %<branch> as shortcut to the tracked branch

From

Jeff King <peff@peff.net>

Date

Mar 20, 2009, 06:05 UTC

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<20090320060545.GB27008@coredump.intra.peff.net>

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<20090320004029.GX23521@spearce.org>

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 05:40:29PM -0700, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

> So yea, you can create a branch named "foo@{1}".

But you can't actually refer to it:

  $ git branch foo@{1}
  $ git show foo@{1} --
  fatal: bad revision 'foo@{1}'

which implies that nobody is actually using it for anything.

-Peff