Subject: Re: "git branch --contains x y" creates a branch instead of checking containment

From: Per Cederqvist <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 17:05:37 +0100

On 02/21/13 16:58, Jeff King wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 02:00:27PM +0100, Per Cederqvist wrote:
>
>> That command does something completely different,
>> though. The "--contains x" part is silently ignored,
>> so it creates a branch named "y" pointing at HEAD.
>>
>> Tested in git 1.8.1.1 and 1.8.1.4.
>>
>> In my opinion, there are two ways to fix this:
>>
>>   - change the "git branch" implementation so
>>     that --contains implies --list.
>
> I think that is the best option, too. In fact, I even wrote a patch. :)
>
> It's d040350 (branch: let branch filters imply --list, 2013-01-31), and
> it's already in v1.8.2-rc0.
>
> -Peff

Great! Thanks for the quick fix of my bug report. Negative response
time... not bad. Not bad at all. :-)

     /ceder