Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.16.0-rc0
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        git-packagers@googlegroups.com
References: <xmqqfu7ui2af.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
From: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <52672e8e-7ffe-a520-5f50-9e7fd15f28c5@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2017 12:47:23 +0530
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101
 Thunderbird/52.5.0
MIME-Version: 1.0
In-Reply-To: <xmqqfu7ui2af.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
Content-Language: en-US
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
Content-Length: 339
Lines: 10

On Friday 29 December 2017 10:00 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>   * "git branch" and "git checkout -b" are now forbidden from creating
>     a branch whose name is "HEAD".

"git branch" already forbid a branch named "HEAD", didn't it? I thought 
we just made "git checkout -b" to reject "HEAD" as a valid branch name, 
recently.

-- 
Kaartic