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Re: [PATCH 2/9] t1508 (at-combinations): test branches separately

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Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date
May 2, 2013, 17:30 UTC
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On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Felipe Contreras wrote:
>> I'm not sure about this. If we introduce a check that fails, we would
>> have to do:
>>
>> check HEAD refs/heads/new-branch "" failure
>>
>> Which doesn't seem clean. Perhaps it makes more sense to always add
>> the type of check:
>>
>> check HEAD ref refs/heads/new-branch
>
> I think you misunderstood.  Failure looks like this:
>
>     check "@@{u}" ref refs/heads/upstream-branch failure
>
> And corresponding success like this:
>
>     check "@@{u}" refs/heads/upstream-branch
>
> We can make the "ref" compulsory if you like.  I thought about it too.
I think it's less surprising.
-- 
Felipe Contreras
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Message 6 of 24 in “A natural solution to the @ -> HEAD problem”
  1. 0/9 A natural solution to the @ -> HEAD problemRamkumar Ramachandra, May 2, 2013
  2. 1/9 t1508 (at-combinations): simplify setupRamkumar Ramachandra, May 2, 2013
  3. 2/9 t1508 (at-combinations): test branches separatelyRamkumar Ramachandra, May 2, 2013
  4. Felipe ContrerasMay 2, 2013
  5. Ramkumar RamachandraMay 2, 2013
  6. Felipe ContrerasMay 2, 2013
  7. 3/9 t1508 (at-combinations): improve nonsense()Ramkumar Ramachandra, May 2, 2013
  8. 4/9 t1508 (at-combinations): increase coverageRamkumar Ramachandra, May 2, 2013
  9. Eric SunshineMay 2, 2013
  10. 5/9 t1508 (at-combinations): document @{N} versus HEAD@{N}Ramkumar Ramachandra, May 2, 2013
  11. Felipe ContrerasMay 2, 2013
  12. Ramkumar RamachandraMay 2, 2013
  13. Felipe ContrerasMay 2, 2013
  14. Ramkumar RamachandraMay 2, 2013
  15. 6/9 t1508 (at-combinations): test with symbolic refsRamkumar Ramachandra, May 2, 2013
  16. 7/9 remote.c: teach branch_get() to treat symrefs other than HEADRamkumar Ramachandra, May 2, 2013
  17. Ramkumar RamachandraMay 2, 2013
  18. Ramkumar RamachandraMay 2, 2013
  19. Felipe ContrerasMay 2, 2013
  20. 8/9 sha1_name.c: fix @-parsing bug in interpret_branch_name()Ramkumar Ramachandra, May 2, 2013
  21. 9/9 refs.c: make @ a pseudo-ref alias to HEADRamkumar Ramachandra, May 2, 2013
  22. Ramkumar RamachandraMay 2, 2013
  23. Felipe ContrerasMay 2, 2013
  24. Ramkumar RamachandraMay 2, 2013

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