Re: BUG 1.7.9: git branch fails to create new branch when --edit-description is used

Michael Haggerty [off-list ref] writes:

On 01/28/2012 08:27 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

quoted

Michael Haggerty [off-list ref] writes:

I vote for an error.  Otherwise a typo in the branch name would lead to
the description's apparent disappearance into Nirvana.  An error would,
for example, have made it clear to the OP what was happening.

I agree with this statement.

Unless or until we update --edit-description to create a new branch when
given a name of a branch that does not exist, the existing behaviour is
simply an accident waiting to happen.