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[PATCH] Documentation: Mention that 'bisect' is reserved branch name

From
Abhijit Bhopatkar <bain@devslashzero.com>
Date
Nov 7, 2008, 10:01 UTC
Message-ID
<2fcfa6df0811070201g75bfe659x38a4f14b1cf793c6@mail.gmail.com>

"git bisect" uses 'bisect' branch to carry out it's operations. However "git branch" documentation does mention it. Add a note that 'bisect' can not be used as generic branch name by the user.

Signed-off-by: Abhijit Bhopatkar <bain@devslashzero.com>
---
diff --git a/Documentation/git-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-branch.txt
index 6103d62..2ea99fd 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-branch.txt
@@ -203,6 +203,9 @@ but different purposes:
 - `--no-merged` is used to find branches which are candidates for merging
   into HEAD, since those branches are not fully contained by HEAD.

+The branch name 'bisect' is reserved for use by "git-bisect" and can not be
+used as a generic branch name.
+
 Author
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 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and Junio C Hamano
<gitster@pobox.com>
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