From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:58:28 GMT
Subject: Re: "git branch --contains x y" creates a branch instead of checking containment
Message-ID: <20130221155827.GA20640@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <51261A6B.5020909@opera.com>

On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 02:00:27PM +0100, Per Cederqvist wrote:

> That command does something completely different,
> though. The "--contains x" part is silently ignored,
> so it creates a branch named "y" pointing at HEAD.
> 
> Tested in git 1.8.1.1 and 1.8.1.4.
> 
> In my opinion, there are two ways to fix this:
> 
>  - change the "git branch" implementation so
>    that --contains implies --list.

I think that is the best option, too. In fact, I even wrote a patch. :)

It's d040350 (branch: let branch filters imply --list, 2013-01-31), and
it's already in v1.8.2-rc0.

-Peff