From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:39:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] builtin-branch - allow deleting a fully specified branch-name
Message-ID: <7vhc0x1gvh.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1239323335-4684-1-git-send-email-mlevedahl@gmail.com>

Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com> writes:

> This change allows, for instance
> 	git branch -d refs/heads/foo
> to succeed. Without this patch, the code just assumes that the
> given branch name should be appended to "refs/heads" or
> "refs/remotes", thus attempting (and failing) in the above case
> to delete "refs/heads/refs/heads/foo"

Your logic is broken.

Why doesn't the user simply say "git branch -d foo"?  The command takes
"the branch name", not "arbitrary ref name".