From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 07:47:58 GMT
Subject: Re: BUG: check-ref-format and rev-parse can not handle branches with an @ in their name combined with @{u}
Message-ID: <20140115074758.GA8978@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7v1u091ybx.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 11:46:58PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> 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.

I am just about done with a patch series to address this, and a few
other related bugs I found. So don't look too hard; I should have
something out in a few minutes.

-Peff