Re: git push bug?

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Oct 18, 2007, 22:00 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710182259190.25221@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <1192725116.4954.7.camel@gentoo-jocke.transmode.se>

Hi,

On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:

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> On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 17:21 +0100, 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".
> 
> First, I didn't know that I could do that. Secondly, I was also looking 
> do v2.6.23:linus refspecs

First, then our documentation could be better.  How?

Second, why not "git checkout -b linus v2.6.23 && git push origin linus"?

Ciao, Dscho