From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Phil Sainty Subject: Since 2.7.0 git branch displays symbolic references as ref -> ref instead of ref -> branch Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2016 14:54:22 +1200 Message-ID: <570085DE.9000002@orcon.net.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Apr 03 05:01:39 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1amYIE-0006bC-J7 for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Apr 2016 05:01:38 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751633AbcDCDBe (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Apr 2016 23:01:34 -0400 Received: from mail.orcon.net.nz ([219.88.242.56]:59275 "EHLO mail.orcon.net.nz" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750819AbcDCDBd (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Apr 2016 23:01:33 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 427 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sat, 02 Apr 2016 23:01:33 EDT Received: from [192.168.20.100] (host-203-94-61-82.xdsl.kinect.net.nz [203.94.61.82] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.orcon.net.nz (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id u332sNB9030346 for ; Sun, 3 Apr 2016 14:54:24 +1200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.1 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0: No Bayes scoring rules defined, tokens from: outbound) X-Spam-Score: -1.71 () [Hold at 3.00] FREEMAIL_FROM:0.001,RDNS_NONE:1.274,TO_NO_BRKTS_NORDNS:0.001,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL:0.01,CC(NZ:-3) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=203.94.61.82; country=NZ; latitude=-41.0000; longitude=174.0000; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=-41.0000,174.0000&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: base:outbound X-Canit-Stats-ID: 01QBCSnC3 - 9305118c19a2 - 20160403 (trained as not-spam) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Given the following symbolic reference: $ git symbolic-ref refs/heads/m refs/heads/master Correct in 2.6.6: $ PATH=~/git/git-2.6.6:$PATH git branch m -> master * master Wrong in 2.7.0: $ PATH=~/git/git-2.7.0:$PATH git branch m -> m * master Still wrong in current version 2.8.0: $ PATH=~/git/git-2.8.0:$PATH git branch m -> m * master As the new output isn't very useful, I assume this is an unintentional bug/regression. The 2.6.6 output has been used since at least version 1.7.12.4 (when I first started making use of this ability). -Phil