Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> writes:

quoted text
> This commit changes the rules for resolving refspecs to match the
> rules for resolving refs in rev-parse. git-rev-parse uses clear rules
> to resolve a short ref to its full name, which are well documented.
> The rules for resolving refspecs documented in git-send-pack were
> less strict and harder to understand. This commit replaces them by
> the rules of git-rev-parse.
>
> The unified rules are easier to understand and better resolve ambiguous
> cases. You can now push from a repository containing several branches
> ending on the same short name.

As you introduced long names around 5/10 to have two different
ones for clarity with the goal of unifying them, so once you
unified the rules, it probably is a good idea to rename the long
"do_this_with_X_rule()" and "do_this_with_Y_rule()" functions
back to "do_this()", isn't it?


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