ref name troubles, was Re: [PATCH v2] Introduce %<branch> as shortcut to the tracked branch

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mar 20, 2009, 00:38 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0903200137230.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0903200121330.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

Hi,

On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> Just try this:
> 
> 	$ git checkout -b %helloworld

It gets worse.  Much worse.

Try this (triggered by a comment by Ilari on IRC):

	$ git checkout -b '@{1}'

That _works_! WTH?

Ciao, Dscho

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