From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 07:28:40 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] push: use same rules as git-rev-parse to resolve refspecs
Message-ID: <7vlk9nwvdj.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <11935038083116-git-send-email-prohaska@zib.de>

Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> writes:

> This commit changes the rules for resolving refspecs to match the
> rules for resolving refs in rev-parse. git-rev-parse uses clear rules
> to resolve a short ref to its full name, which are well documented.
> The rules for resolving refspecs documented in git-send-pack were
> less strict and harder to understand. This commit replaces them by
> the rules of git-rev-parse.
>
> The unified rules are easier to understand and better resolve ambiguous
> cases. You can now push from a repository containing several branches
> ending on the same short name.
>
> Note, this breaks existing setups. For example "master" will no longer
> resolve to "origin/master".

It may "break" but I think it is a good change.