From: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 00:48:14 GMT
Subject: Re: Fwd: Issue with Git Branch
Message-ID: <20200113004814.GA15236@syl.local>
In-Reply-To: <20200113004235.GI32750@szeder.dev>

On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 01:42:35AM +0100, SZEDER Gábor wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 04:11:43PM -0800, Taylor Blau wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 07:01:04PM -0500, Jude Guan Wang wrote:
> > > 	I noticed something weird with my git command. In my local
> > > 	environment I seem to have a branch named `-D`:
> > >
> > > 	And I don’t remember how I was able to create a branch like that.
>
> > If you do find a reproducible way to create branches named '-D' or
> > similar, please do let us know, as these are not intended to be valid
> > branch names in general.
>
>   $ git update-ref refs/heads/-D master
>   $ git branch |head -n1
>     -D

I was assuming that Jude had gotten the ref to appear by using 'git
branch' alone, i.e., without the help of 'git update-ref' or 'cp
.git/refs/heads/{master,-D}'.

Thanks,
Taylor