From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 05:24:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] Teach @{-1} to git merge
Message-ID: <7veixkpi4a.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <86d4c5e00902262027y13b19eb7nf89a45e83b986801@mail.gmail.com>

Deskin Miller <deskinm@gmail.com> writes:

> I did 'git branch -M @{-1}' yesterday and ended up renaming my branch
> to refs/heads/@{-1}.  Personally my usage felt like it should work
> (but of course I think that); curious to know what others think, if
> this is a bug.

The @{-n} notation is supposed to be usable anywhere you would write a
branch name and should behave as if you wrote the name itself.  And 'git
branch -M <name> [<name>]' does expect a branch name, not a random
extended SHA-1 expression.

I'd say it is a bug.