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

From
Abhijit Bhopatkar <bain@devslashzero.com>
Date
Nov 7, 2008, 10:23 UTC
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<2fcfa6df0811070223w5631af5drdc34e6ea51bc566e@mail.gmail.com>
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>> "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.
> Hmm...
>    commit 634f246444e6a1675e351f31362e6a375dc44f70
>    Author: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
>    Date:   2008-05-23 01:28:57 +0200
>
>        bisect: use a detached HEAD to bisect
Cool, didn't know that ...

Submitted patch must be ignored Thanks

Abhijit
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