Re: master^ is not a local branch -- huh?!?
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Jacob Helwig <jacob.helwig@gmail.com>
- Date
- Jan 29, 2010, 20:38 UTC
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On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:35, Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Heya, > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 21:27, Jacob Helwig <jacob.helwig@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:20, Ron1 <ron1@flownet.com> wrote: >>> This is a test repository which has never been pulled from nor pushed to >>> anywhere. So how is it possible that I have a non-local branch? >> >> master^ is a commit (the first parent of master), not a branch (local >> or otherwise). > > Perhaps we should change the message to say "not a branch" if it's not > a reference to a remote branch? Or simply changing the text to "not a > (local) branch"? >
I think "not a branch" would be better than "not a (local) branch". In my mind, the latter reads almost exactly the same as the current message.