[PATCH] Documentation: Mention that 'bisect' is reserved branch name
From: Abhijit Bhopatkar <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:45:37
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
"git bisect" uses 'bisect' branch to carry out it's operations. However "git branch" documentation does mention it. Add a note that 'bisect' can not be used as generic branch name by the user. Signed-off-by: Abhijit Bhopatkar <redacted> ---
diff --git a/Documentation/git-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-branch.txt
index 6103d62..2ea99fd 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-branch.txt@@ -203,6 +203,9 @@ but different purposes: - `--no-merged` is used to find branches which are candidates for merging into HEAD, since those branches are not fully contained by HEAD. +The branch name 'bisect' is reserved for use by "git-bisect" and can not be +used as a generic branch name. + Author ------ Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and Junio C Hamano
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