Re: BUG: check-ref-format and rev-parse can not handle branches with an @ in their name combined with @{u}

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > Is that what "--branch" does? I have never used it, but the manpage
> > seems to suggest it is about _parsing_ (which, IMHO, means it probably
> > should have been an option to rev-parse, but that is another issue
> > altogether).
> 
> Ahh, of course you are right.  I never use it, and somehow thought
> it was just prepending refs/heads/ to its arguments, but it seems to
> want to do a lot more than that.