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Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.16.0-rc0

From
Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 29, 2017, 07:17 UTC
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<52672e8e-7ffe-a520-5f50-9e7fd15f28c5@gmail.com>
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On Friday 29 December 2017 10:00 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>   * "git branch" and "git checkout -b" are now forbidden from creating
>     a branch whose name is "HEAD".

"git branch" already forbid a branch named "HEAD", didn't it? I thought we just made "git checkout -b" to reject "HEAD" as a valid branch name, recently.

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Kaartic
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  2. Kaartic SivaraamDec 29, 2017
  3. Paul SmithDec 29, 2017
  4. Thomas GummererJan 4, 2018
  5. Paul SmithJan 4, 2018
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  12. Jeff KingJun 8, 2018
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