git branch --contains x y creates a branch instead of checking containment

2013-02-21 Thread Per Cederqvist
The git branch --list --contains x y command lists all branches that contains commit x and matches the pattern y. Reading the git-branch(1) manual page gives the impression that --list is redundant, and that you can instead write git branch --contains x y That command does something

Re: git branch --contains x y creates a branch instead of checking containment

2013-02-21 Thread Jeff King
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 02:00:27PM +0100, Per Cederqvist wrote: That command does something completely different, though. The --contains x part is silently ignored, so it creates a branch named y pointing at HEAD. Tested in git 1.8.1.1 and 1.8.1.4. In my opinion, there are two ways to

Re: git branch --contains x y creates a branch instead of checking containment

2013-02-21 Thread Per Cederqvist
On 02/21/13 16:58, Jeff King wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 02:00:27PM +0100, Per Cederqvist wrote: That command does something completely different, though. The --contains x part is silently ignored, so it creates a branch named y pointing at HEAD. Tested in git 1.8.1.1 and 1.8.1.4. In my

Re: git branch --contains x y creates a branch instead of checking containment

2013-02-21 Thread Junio C Hamano
Per Cederqvist ced...@opera.com writes: On 02/21/13 16:58, Jeff King wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 02:00:27PM +0100, Per Cederqvist wrote: That command does something completely different, though. The --contains x part is silently ignored, so it creates a branch named y pointing at HEAD.