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Re: please consider remove those tags named master, which is ambigous with master branch

From
Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 24, 2008, 15:44 UTC
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2008/9/23 rae l <crquan@gmail.com>:
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> To Git developers:
>  I found that different git subcommand have inconsitent processing
> about ambiguous refname,
>
> git show will take "master" tag first,
> while git tag -v will take "master" branch first,
>
> So what's your suggestion to fix this? Just simple remove ambiguous refnames?
You can use "refs/tags/master" and "refs/heads/master"...
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  2. Alex RiesenSep 24, 2008
  3. Andreas EricssonSep 24, 2008

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