Re: What actually is a branch?

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 9, 2021, 15:08 UTC
Message-ID: <60e8666c8707f_2153208c0@natae.notmuch>
In-Reply-To: <084a355e-95cd-5c84-2fa5-a901da3e0e49@mfriebe.de>

Martin wrote:

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> While writing a mail on the origin topic (improve docs), I noticed that 
> the word "branch-ish" is still free.
> 
> Which would be anything that resolves to a "branch reference".
> 
> Currently this only is
> - branch name.
> - branchname@{upstream}

Actually @ and HEAD too.

I don't particularly see much value in that definition since I always use a committish when I write a branch name, and the fact that `git switch` expects branches is one of the things that bothers me about it.

Either way I don't think it makes much sense to do `git switch branchnae@{upstream}`, and even less `git switch @`.

-- 
Felipe Contreras

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