Re: git push bug?

> 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.