From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:34:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCHv8 00/10] git notes
Message-ID: <7vhbqh5g45.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4B56BC22.1040702@viscovery.net>

Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:

>> Subject: Fix "checkout A..." synonym for "checkout A...HEAD" on Windows
>> ...
>> Work this issue around by first calling check_ref_format(new.path) to see
>> if the string can possibly be a valid ref under "refs/heads/", before
>> asking resolve_ref().
>
> Your patch fixes the failure very nicely, thank you very much.
>
> BTW, calling 'git pack-refs --all' before 'git checkout master...'
> helps as well :-P

Thanks for a prompt response (given our timezone difference ;-)

I've been thinking about moving that check even further down, namely at
the beginning of resolve_ref(), as anything that is not valid cannot
possibly resolve correctly.

What do people think?