From: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:55:45 GMT
Subject: Re: git push bug?
Message-ID: <9EEDF284-22BE-44BF-A9B8-116407784BEB@zib.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710181720010.25221@racer.site>


On Oct 18, 2007, at 6:21 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
>
>> Seems like it is a bit too easy to make mistakes here. Why can I  
>> delete
>> a branch with :linus but not create one with linus:linus?
>
> I wonder why you bother with the colon at all.  Just
>
> 	git push <remote> linus
>
> and be done with it.  The colon is only there to play interesting  
> games,
> not something as simple as "push this branch" or "push this tag".

But you need a full refspec starting with 'refs/heads/' if you want to
create a new branch on the remote side.

	Steffen