From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 06:57:42 GMT
Subject: Re: ref name troubles, was Re: [PATCH v2] Introduce %<branch> as shortcut to the tracked branch
Message-ID: <7vprgc4r6h.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090320060545.GB27008@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 05:40:29PM -0700, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
>
>> So yea, you can create a branch named "foo@{1}".
>
> But you can't actually refer to it:
>
>   $ git branch foo@{1}
>   $ git show foo@{1} --
>   fatal: bad revision 'foo@{1}'
>
> which implies that nobody is actually using it for anything.

I think you are right.  It is just "git branch" and perhaps "git
update-ref" are too loose in enforcing what can be created.