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From: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
To: "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>,
	Jude Guan Wang <guan@clicktherapeutics.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fwd: Issue with Git Branch
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2020 16:48:14 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200113004814.GA15236@syl.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200113004235.GI32750@szeder.dev>

On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 01:42:35AM +0100, SZEDER Gábor wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 04:11:43PM -0800, Taylor Blau wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 07:01:04PM -0500, Jude Guan Wang wrote:
> > > 	I noticed something weird with my git command. In my local
> > > 	environment I seem to have a branch named `-D`:
> > >
> > > 	And I don’t remember how I was able to create a branch like that.
>
> > If you do find a reproducible way to create branches named '-D' or
> > similar, please do let us know, as these are not intended to be valid
> > branch names in general.
>
>   $ git update-ref refs/heads/-D master
>   $ git branch |head -n1
>     -D

I was assuming that Jude had gotten the ref to appear by using 'git
branch' alone, i.e., without the help of 'git update-ref' or 'cp
.git/refs/heads/{master,-D}'.

Thanks,
Taylor

  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-13  0:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <56F9DC91-740F-47C7-9C2A-B6B1EC3A12B6@clicktherapeutics.com>
2020-01-13  0:01 ` Fwd: Issue with Git Branch Jude Guan Wang
2020-01-13  0:11   ` Taylor Blau
2020-01-13  0:42     ` SZEDER Gábor
2020-01-13  0:48       ` Taylor Blau [this message]
2020-01-13 11:26         ` SZEDER Gábor

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