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Re: BUG: check-ref-format and rev-parse can not handle branches with an @ in their name combined with @{u}

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jan 15, 2014, 07:46 UTC
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<20140115050003.GA27237@sigill.intra.peff.net>
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> Is that what "--branch" does? I have never used it, but the manpage
> seems to suggest it is about _parsing_ (which, IMHO, means it probably
> should have been an option to rev-parse, but that is another issue
> altogether).

Ahh, of course you are right. I never use it, and somehow thought it was just prepending refs/heads/ to its arguments, but it seems to want to do a lot more than that.

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Message 4 of 12 in “BUG: check-ref-format and rev-parse can not handle branches with an @ in their name combined with @{u}”
  1. Keith DerrickJan 14, 2014
  2. Junio C HamanoJan 14, 2014
  3. Jeff KingJan 15, 2014
  4. Junio C HamanoJan 15, 2014
  5. Jeff KingJan 15, 2014
  6. 0/5 interpret_branch_name bug potpourriJeff King, Jan 15, 2014
  7. 1/5 interpret_branch_name: factor out upstream handlingJeff King, Jan 15, 2014
  8. 2/5 interpret_branch_name: rename "cp" variable to "at"Jeff King, Jan 15, 2014
  9. 3/5 interpret_branch_name: always respect "namelen" parameterJeff King, Jan 15, 2014
  10. 4/5 interpret_branch_name: avoid @{upstream} past colonJeff King, Jan 15, 2014
  11. 5/5 interpret_branch_name: find all possible @-marksJeff King, Jan 15, 2014
  12. Junio C HamanoJan 15, 2014

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