Subject: Re: Git *accepts* a branch name, it can't identity in the future?

From: Kaartic Sivaraam <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2017 14:41:11 +0530

On Sun, 2017-08-20 at 10:20 +0200, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> It is not Git's fault that your terminal converts an invalid UTF-8 
> sequence (that your script produces) to �. Nor is it when you paste that 
> character onto the command line, that it is passed as a (correct) UTF-8 
> character.
> 

You're right. I just now realise how I missed the line between "what's
seen by us" and "what's seen by the program".

> Perhaps this helps (untested):
> 
> $ git branch -m done/$(printf '\x93')doc-fix done/dic-fix
> 

This one helped, thanks.

-- 
Kaartic