From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:34:26 GMT
Subject: Re: Bug: "git checkout -b" should be allowed in empty repo
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In-Reply-To: <7vk440a5qw.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> But the last one has no chance of working if you think about it, because
> "git branch foo $start" is a way to start a branch at $start and you need
> to have something to point at with refs/heads/foo.

... which brings us back to your earlier point ...

>> I like your patch better than trying to pass around "0{40}", but:

which is why my conclusion was that "checkout -b" is shifting the
confusion around to different parts.

> So we are breaking the equivalence between these three only when HEAD
> points at an unborn branch.