Re: several quick questions

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Feb 15, 2006, 00:08 UTC
Message-ID: <43F270F5.7070804@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0602150022470.24570@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> 
> 
>>What's the point of having another protected name. Just allow
>>
>>	$ git checkout -b discard HEAD~15
>>
>>and we're good to go.
> 
> 
> Last time I checked (2 hours ago) it did exactly what you want it to.
>

Heh. You're right. :) Didn't grok that from the man-page. I'm so used to seeing <commit-ish> everywhere that when it says "<branch> can be any object that refers to a commit" I get confused.

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