On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 04:38:42PM -0800, Jakub Narebski wrote: > > I see the remote branches with names of the form remotes/pub/name where > > pub is the nickname of the place I pull from. To specify such branches, > > must I always spell it out with the leading "remotes/", or can that be > > shorted or implied somehow? > > You usually can omit "remotes/" prefix, and just use > "<remote>/<branch>" (or even "<remote>" for "<remote>/HEAD"). You need > it only if there is need for disambiguation. Yes. I don't know if they are documented anywhere, but the complete lookup order is: $ git grep -h -A8 ref_rev_parse_rules refs.c const char *ref_rev_parse_rules[] = { "%.*s", "refs/%.*s", "refs/tags/%.*s", "refs/heads/%.*s", "refs/remotes/%.*s", "refs/remotes/%.*s/HEAD", NULL }; -Peff -- 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