Re: remote branches, and branch names in general

On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 02:32:00PM -0500, Jay Soffian wrote:

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Yes, the "branch" command deals only with creating things in refs/heads,

Unless given -r, in which case it looks in refs/remotes, or -a, in
which case it looks in refs/heads and refs/remotes. :-)

OK, fair enough. ;P

But I think the lesson to be learned is that there is a difference
between arbitrary ref lookup (which you might use with log, show, diff,
or even as the branching-off point for branch) and specialized commands
which assume you are working in some part of the ref hierarchy (heads,
tags, or even remotes).

-Peff