On Tuesday 05 December 2017 12:14 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivar...@gmail.com> writes:
Stepping back a bit, the mild suspicion above says
$ git checkout HEAD^0
... do things ...
$ git checkout -b temp
... do more things ...
$ git checkout -B @{-1}
that creates a new branch whose name is 40-hex of a commit that
happens to be where we started the whole dance *is* a bug. No sane
user expects that to happen, and the last step "checkout -B @{-1}"
should result in an error instead [*1*].
I was wondering if "git check-ref-format --branch @{-1}", when used
in place of "checkout -B @{-1}" in the above sequence,
I guess you mean '... "git checkout -B $(git check-ref-format --branch
@{-1}", when used in place of "git checkout -B @{-1}" ...' ?
No you guessed wrong. I was (and am) wondering if the last step in
the following sequence should fail.
$ git checkout HEAD^0
... do things ...
$ git checkout -b temp
... do more things ...
$ git check-ref-format --branch @{-1}
Ok. Now I get what you say.
And I am leaning towards saying that it is a bug that it does not
fail; @{-1} is a detached HEAD and not a concrete branch name in
this case,
It seems your thought is similar to the following thought that I
expressed in [1],
-- 8< --
I thought this the other way round. Rather than letting the callers
error out when @{-N} didn't expand to a branch name, I thought we
should not be expanding @{-N} syntax for "check-ref-format --branch" at
all to make a "stronger guarantee" that the result is "always" a valid
branch name. Then I thought it might be too restrictive and didn't
mention it. So, I dunno.
-- >8 --
so "check-ref-format --branch" should at least notice
and say that it is a request that may lead to a nonsense next step
(which is to create a branch with that 40-hex name).
Makes sense, this should at least be noted in the Documentation. Is that
what you had in mind too or do you expect 'check-ref-format' to do
something else too?
[1]: https://public-inbox.org/git/1511880237.10193.5.ca...@gmail.com/
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Kaartic
