Subject: Re: [PATCH] Disallow creating ambiguous branch names by default

From: Stephen Bash <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:53:15 -0400 (EDT)

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Junio C Hamano" <[email-masked]>
> To: "Conrad Irwin" <[email-masked]>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 2:41:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Disallow creating ambiguous branch names by default
>
> We should be giving these warning messages immediately after creating
> potentially problematic refs, i.e. just after "git branch v1.0.0" and
> "git checkout -b v1.0.0". The user experience should look like this
> instead:
> 
> $ git branch v1.0.0
> warning: refname 'v1.0.0' is ambiguous.
> advice: you may want to rename it to an unambigous name with
> advice: git branch -m v1.0.0 v1.0.0-branch
> $ git branch -m v1.0.0 v1.0.0-branch ;# thanks for an advice
> 
> $ git checkout -b v1.0.0
> warning: refname 'v1.0.0' is ambiguous.
> advice: you may want to rename it to an unambigous name with
> advice: git branch -m v1.0.0-branch-2
> $ git branch -m v1.0.0-branch-2 ;# thanks for an advice

Should case insensitive matches be added to the tests?  This morning I discovered coworkers working on branches foo and Foo thinking they were on the same branch...  Rather trivial to clean up, but certainly caused some confusion in the office.

Thanks,
Stephen