"git bisect" uses 'bisect' branch to carry out it's operations. However "git branch" documentation does mention it. Add a note that 'bisect' can not be used as generic branch name by the user. Signed-off-by: Abhijit Bhopatkar <bain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- diff --git a/Documentation/git-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-branch.txt index 6103d62..2ea99fd 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-branch.txt @@ -203,6 +203,9 @@ but different purposes: - `--no-merged` is used to find branches which are candidates for merging into HEAD, since those branches are not fully contained by HEAD. +The branch name 'bisect' is reserved for use by "git-bisect" and can not be +used as a generic branch name. + Author ------ Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> and Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> -- 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