"Nathan W. Panike" <nathan.panike@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > 1. If $GIT_DIR/<name> exists, that is what you mean > (this is usually useful only for HEAD, FETCH_HEAD, ORIG_HEAD, > MERGE_HEAD and CHERRY_PICK_HEAD); > 2. otherwise, refs/<name> if it exists; > 3. otherwise, refs/tags/<refname> if it exists; > 4. otherwise, refs/heads/<name> if it exists; > 5. otherwise, refs/remotes/<name> if it exists; > 6. otherwise, refs/remotes/<name>/HEAD if it exists. > ... > > Is there any way to change this behavior, e.g., so that rule 6 becomes > an error? You will force people to say "git log origin/master..master" to measure their progress if you did so, when "git log origin..master" has been the way described in many git books and documentation pages floating on the web. I think it is _very_ unlikely that such a change is going to happen. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html