On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 02:32:00PM -0500, Jay Soffian wrote: > On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Yes, the "branch" command deals only with creating things in refs/heads, > > Unless given -r, in which case it looks in refs/remotes, or -a, in > which case it looks in refs/heads and refs/remotes. :-) OK, fair enough. ;P But I think the lesson to be learned is that there is a difference between arbitrary ref lookup (which you might use with log, show, diff, or even as the branching-off point for branch) and specialized commands which assume you are working in some part of the ref hierarchy (heads, tags, or even remotes). -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