From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:49:33 GMT
Subject: Re: BUG 1.7.9: git branch fails to create new branch when --edit-description is used
Message-ID: <7vzkd6dvrm.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4F24E78A.7060502@alum.mit.edu>

Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> writes:

> On 01/28/2012 08:27 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> writes:
>> 
> I vote for an error.  Otherwise a typo in the branch name would lead to
> the description's apparent disappearance into Nirvana.  An error would,
> for example, have made it clear to the OP what was happening.

I agree with this statement.

Unless or until we update --edit-description to create a new branch when
given a name of a branch that does not exist, the existing behaviour is
simply an accident waiting to happen.