From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:35:08 GMT
Subject: Re: master^ is not a local branch -- huh?!?
Message-ID: <fabb9a1e1001291235h26681e65qe4851cae1c536b6d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <8c9a061001291227v34ca0745l1ab35ef6ca5863dc@mail.gmail.com>

Heya,

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 21:27, Jacob Helwig <jacob.helwig@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:20, Ron1 <ron1@flownet.com> wrote:
>> This is a test repository which has never been pulled from nor pushed to
>> anywhere.  So how is it possible that I have a non-local branch?
>
> master^ is a commit (the first parent of master), not a branch (local
> or otherwise).

Perhaps we should change the message to say "not a branch" if it's not
a reference to a remote branch? Or simply changing the text to "not a
(local) branch"?

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier