From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2021 15:08:28 GMT
Subject: Re: What actually is a branch?
Message-ID: <60e8666c8707f_2153208c0@natae.notmuch>
In-Reply-To: <084a355e-95cd-5c84-2fa5-a901da3e0e49@mfriebe.de>

Martin wrote:

> 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