Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> But the last one has no chance of working if you think about it, because
> "git branch foo $start" is a way to start a branch at $start and you need
> to have something to point at with refs/heads/foo.
... which brings us back to your earlier point ...
>> I like your patch better than trying to pass around "0{40}", but:
which is why my conclusion was that "checkout -b" is shifting the
confusion around to different parts.
> So we are breaking the equivalence between these three only when HEAD
> points at an unborn branch.
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