From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.0 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A609201A0 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2017 22:00:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752554AbdGCWAz (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jul 2017 18:00:55 -0400 Received: from mail-wr0-f172.google.com ([209.85.128.172]:34276 "EHLO mail-wr0-f172.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752494AbdGCWAx (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jul 2017 18:00:53 -0400 Received: by mail-wr0-f172.google.com with SMTP id 77so240321932wrb.1 for ; Mon, 03 Jul 2017 15:00:53 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=from:to:subject:user-agent:date:message-id:mime-version; bh=foLlIqoJhZHbc6jBAdv1510839LJZHvkGKNVl8XeY9Y=; b=hpAbXw8M7u6I8yPPjKwgcgQSJp0ACA4qWYbzdPowA3yS31o/XMs0VzgFVPdK9iFTNQ CBXqpD2Wl/TmxMPMwWaIaMwx0aB9lE5DZeQ/y6RVTtHMjos6cc3bChQ20FYHS7ZBBwWO aLgVr0meLZPSB6h0XudeDwILMJyFPRBc3PRolg6Zg+EyRhwsIlKZq5Ba33pmPwK1l9cu sRt5G2X2Rm8IwFFFR/p3tWke4Y7v28a06LuXJXu/H5tAizjPVFE1JUlc6Fkq+sQsTVau SdRaSpX8OzRn1Yt8y/5Z9S3jMmSf/RlIl0MuQz5YPmdeF8ZAOrB4xcwE0MCOtV184T26 fC+A== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:subject:user-agent:date:message-id :mime-version; bh=foLlIqoJhZHbc6jBAdv1510839LJZHvkGKNVl8XeY9Y=; b=cHmHYkAWy9P6dx8pe6j2UUuzinX2YUb3f24sQFnglUehrXfBMys2q5nECuyZ6YPlDt IylacALVXmQwMZb4qt2n0KhD+D6ibuyGCdZhjQ3hzRu7MoLZABqvsmtesh5czlIJ57Hj I5X4tfVhtreG3t6F8e6PiVM8gDPeFNvhaZS+3blaPFGciujiG3ZR9JVYJjGJhrhD9Lzq Yap013iIQgZwrU/czn0cgIfm1S7FhWb81YurQS3pOHwGMaXX9KCMAnXY7Z8ErRhZ19YO LWRHGAPstwFxdN3y8DEKtoejjQ3rWuM+K2Zja5dgDungLPZwugpCIzSqfsgOe6WImbmW qOzA== X-Gm-Message-State: AKS2vOw27N38H3MjbseyBdJlV7ROFYZyu2fYszw85YbEYKj3awlwtfu8 BQ9AMiFskHlVkFPPZzE= X-Received: by 10.223.172.67 with SMTP id v61mr37956866wrc.112.1499119251854; Mon, 03 Jul 2017 15:00:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from snth (g74110.upc-g.chello.nl. [80.57.74.110]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id r187sm24719111wmg.15.2017.07.03.15.00.49 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 03 Jul 2017 15:00:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from avar by snth with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dS9Oj-0005ZB-4l for git@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 04 Jul 2017 00:00:49 +0200 From: =?utf-8?B?w4Z2YXIgQXJuZmrDtnLDsA==?= Bjarmason To: Git ML Subject: Should "head" also work for "HEAD" on case-insensitive FS? User-agent: Debian GNU/Linux 8.8 (jessie); Emacs 25.1.1; mu4e 0.9.19 Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2017 00:00:49 +0200 Message-ID: <87ziclb2pa.fsf@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org I don't have a OSX box, but was helping a co-worker over Jabber the other day, and he pasted something like: $ git merge-base github/master head Which didn't work for me, and I thought he had a local "head" branch until realizing that of course we were just resolving HEAD on the FS. Has this come up before? I think it makes sense to warn/error about these magic /HEAD/ revisions if they're not upper-case. This is likely unintentional and purely some emergent effect of how it's implemented, and leads to unportable git invocations.