Hi, I was trying to check whether a certain branch contained a commit and ran: git branch --contains ddc150f7a33ae0c9cb16eaac3641abc00f56316f master This resulted in: fatal: A branch named 'master' already exists. When "name" does not exist, this command creates a branch. I expect this command to search the mentioned branch, not trying to create it. The manual page of git-branch(1) does not mention such special behavior either. Git version 1.8.1.2 Regards, Peter -- 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