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,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=no 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 84FFB1F428 for ; Fri, 29 Dec 2017 07:17:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755076AbdL2HRe (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Dec 2017 02:17:34 -0500 Received: from mail-io0-f194.google.com ([209.85.223.194]:35903 "EHLO mail-io0-f194.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751347AbdL2HRd (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Dec 2017 02:17:33 -0500 Received: by mail-io0-f194.google.com with SMTP id i143so20327423ioa.3; Thu, 28 Dec 2017 23:17:33 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=subject:to:cc:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language:content-transfer-encoding; bh=FiWuSJsymATG12HIqbC4gD0bkZ6sf4pbdm0YPkjrW7s=; b=nyh3+Zm7nsyglVV4LAoSCtxGRXCCALCCBsVcWYE6fDZBi6Ae91WLnnepKFlY94YJfR CZjBARX8QILs0CKffwh5rBM1hdV99yAT5shqyeyBcLmCMDmvKkbaGavOGdA9SEg2HgOt diCREZguCwtCE2iZt1o8BIRg/slKEPjRkGi5ELuZ4Io9/H+yJtVc1bm+MY1ll2YgWK64 1gGwae1GO/vMl4/v1Dv8+Utnt4IFchYcvKhiYS/pfaPBJQY49IT5c2XbeV9LfyA8+Pnt Rpb+eLvoRPPOAKmF1SWlykC9PD5uPBNkIFQG/9oUZLpeDvCIVYewm8melgPcL1wEtq01 SFfQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:cc:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language :content-transfer-encoding; bh=FiWuSJsymATG12HIqbC4gD0bkZ6sf4pbdm0YPkjrW7s=; b=OU7xIta/mpZT3o0ceQLjnnbLfJCXQCUJFMNKxaXf5Pt+9sVQ3/PcnSrbFShBEo24Yg O3xMmnT4cn++AmwIVvOHWNaXE2fynKBDezehjM3yvYGELIfXYKyzVN98H3E8rAaawHDI /P9e2PwSdWkHNBVVYKHDCui9AjG/uct2RBt25wQj+NO2sViilO/Ut+ManqyyiuekmN8x oyx5q7JmrR7wsv2sbyxlV63a6K8HTEhebYJedqwur4AKBMifYoyajpDrgWyojQp81N55 bnMQZigDf6PQWyS2GS9byWd0QAyDw2YSP0Jgv9HeAxwbb3vRl9+9qvnaQOCD5SCWg82l AQmw== X-Gm-Message-State: AKGB3mLypl90YRxbDCB33b/KAciu9N4M6ZB6qBAcokfYityfE42uF3eP dN/jl+0DgS/dNLZEVcVMKGI= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ACJfBosLM+TDChGxqhSYMPToET060zKNmSsT3CyCJH51EMsocUQVix7MauzJSx5EBfNK6j+EHIE1KA== X-Received: by 10.107.212.11 with SMTP id l11mr20331666iog.2.1514531852637; Thu, 28 Dec 2017 23:17:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.206.100] ([117.246.65.32]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id p132sm66961ioe.18.2017.12.28.23.17.29 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 28 Dec 2017 23:17:31 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.16.0-rc0 To: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org Cc: Linux Kernel , git-packagers@googlegroups.com References: From: Kaartic Sivaraam Message-ID: <52672e8e-7ffe-a520-5f50-9e7fd15f28c5@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2017 12:47:23 +0530 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Friday 29 December 2017 10:00 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > * "git branch" and "git checkout -b" are now forbidden from creating > a branch whose name is "HEAD". "git branch" already forbid a branch named "HEAD", didn't it? I thought we just made "git checkout -b" to reject "HEAD" as a valid branch name, recently. -- Kaartic