From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 06 May 2011 04:56:38 GMT
Subject: Re: error with $ git push origin HEAD:newbranch
Message-ID: <7v39ks4ebd.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <loom.20110506T034552-210@post.gmane.org>

chris <jugg@hotmail.com> writes:

> All of that to say, it isn't exactly clear what one should expect.

The take-home lesson is that if you want to be explicit and exactly clear,
you can and should spell things out in full, and you can sleep well at
night if you did so.

	# Let's call retroactively v1.5 without the last three topic
        # merges the v1.4.9 release...
	$ git push origin v1.5~3:refs/tags/v1.4.9