From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 07:46:58 GMT
Subject: Re: BUG: check-ref-format and rev-parse can not handle branches with an @ in their name combined with @{u}
Message-ID: <7v1u091ybx.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <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.