From: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [BUG] branch renamed to 'HEAD'
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 05:52:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170227045257.yazqlrqlnggosi5t@macbook.local> (raw)
Hi,
I just discover something which very much seems a bug to me
while making an error in renaming a branch.
The scenario is the following:
- I have a branch named 'orig'
- I want to make some experimental changes on it:
$ git checkout -b temp orig
$ ... edit some files ...
$ ... make some tests & commits ...
- I'm happy with my changes, so I want to have my original
branch to now points to the head of this temp branch
but did it wrongly:
$ git branch -m -f orig @
- Now I discover that I don't have anymore a branch named 'orig'
That's fine, I made an error.
- I'm searching what had happened and discover the name my branch
have been renamed to: 'HEAD'
In others words I have now an entry .git/refs/heads/HEAD
which points to where my original branch pointed.
In my opinion, it's a bug that '@' have been expanded/resolved
into a branch named 'HEAD'.
Luc Van Oostenryck
next reply other threads:[~2017-02-27 4:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-27 4:52 Luc Van Oostenryck [this message]
2017-02-27 6:13 ` [BUG] branch renamed to 'HEAD' Karthik Nayak
2017-02-27 6:47 ` Luc Van Oostenryck
2017-02-27 7:49 ` Jeff King
2017-02-27 8:01 ` Jeff King
2017-02-27 9:02 ` Jeff King
2017-02-27 9:47 ` Luc Van Oostenryck
2017-02-27 22:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-02-27 23:05 ` Jacob Keller
2017-02-28 0:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-02-28 0:53 ` Jeff King
2017-02-28 7:58 ` Jacob Keller
2017-02-28 12:06 ` Jeff King
2017-02-28 12:07 ` [PATCH 1/8] interpret_branch_name: move docstring to header file Jeff King
2017-02-28 12:07 ` [PATCH 2/8] strbuf_branchname: drop return value Jeff King
2017-02-28 12:07 ` [PATCH 3/8] strbuf_branchname: add docstring Jeff King
2017-02-28 12:14 ` [PATCH 4/8] interpret_branch_name: allow callers to restrict expansions Jeff King
2017-02-28 12:23 ` Jeff King
2017-02-28 12:33 ` Jeff King
2017-02-28 20:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-02-28 21:37 ` Jeff King
2017-02-28 12:15 ` [PATCH 5/8] t3204: test git-branch @-expansion corner cases Jeff King
2017-02-28 12:15 ` [PATCH 6/8] branch: restrict @-expansions when deleting Jeff King
2017-02-28 12:16 ` [PATCH 7/8] strbuf_check_ref_format(): expand only local branches Jeff King
2017-02-28 12:17 ` [PATCH 8/8] checkout: restrict @-expansions when finding branch Jeff King
2017-02-28 22:48 ` [BUG] branch renamed to 'HEAD' Jacob Keller
2017-03-01 17:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-02-28 0:49 ` Jeff King
2017-02-28 0:42 ` Jeff King
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