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Re: [Q] Branch aliases (synonyms)?

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HFHallvard Breien Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
Date
Jul 3, 2012, 12:36 UTC
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 I wrote:
> Possibly in addition to them using a private symref.  In this
> case, 'git symbolic-ref B refs/heads/A' might work better.
 Whoops, bad idea - git checkout B then gives a detached HEAD.
 Hallvard
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