Re: git log question

[Stephen Berman]

On Thu, 30 Nov 2017 14:28:51 +0000 "Herring, Davis" <address@hidden> wrote:

>> The same thing with `git log --branches=master <commit> -1'
>> and `git log --branches="master" <commit> -1' (I couldn't tell
>> from the doc if the branch name should be quoted, but it
>> made no difference).
>
> Quoting is handled by the shell (except perhaps on Windows).  Since branch
> names never have characters in them that are special to the shell (by design
> of Git), the quoting does nothing.

Thanks for clarifying (I should have thought of that myself, oh well).

Steve Berman