Re: [BUG] branch renamed to 'HEAD'

From: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 27, 2017, 06:13 UTC
Message-ID: <CAOLa=ZSyQg9uoZWADOMYc90U-5AR9Lfii9mjLre0m0FQCSqfxg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170227045257.yazqlrqlnggosi5t@macbook.local>

Hello,

Thanks for reporting, but I don't think it is a bug.

On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 10:22 AM, Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> I just discover something which very much seems a bug to me
> while making an error in renaming a branch.
> The scenario is the following:
> - I have a branch named 'orig'
> - I want to make some experimental changes on it:
>         $ git checkout -b temp orig
>         $ ... edit some files ...
>         $ ... make some tests & commits ...
> - I'm happy with my changes, so I want to have my original
>   branch to now points to the head of this temp branch
>   but did it wrongly:
>         $ git branch -m -f orig @

Here you are using the '-m' flag, which is to rename a branch. So what
you're essentially
doing is:
    $ git branch -m -f orig HEAD
Do note that this won't reset 'orig' to point to 'HEAD', rather this
renames 'orig' to 'HEAD'.

What you actually want to do (to reset 'orig' to 'HEAD') is:
    $ git branch -f orig @
This would make orig point to the current HEAD.

-- 
Regards,
Karthik Nayak