From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 17:02:00 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] branch: let branch filters imply --list
Message-ID: <7v4nhxi8vr.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1504250.y8BAS4sG2O@al>

Peter Wu <lekensteyn@gmail.com> writes:

> One note, the following command spits out master without complaining about the 
> non-existing branch name:
>
>     git branch --contains <id> master <non-existant branch name>
>
> (the order of branches doesn't affect the result.)

That is perfectly normal.

What you gave after "--contains <id>" are *not* branch names.  They
are patterns against branch names that fits the given criteria (in
this case "--contains <id>") are matched, and the branches that do
not match any of the patterns will not appear in the result.