Subject: Re: Branch names with slashes

From: Michael Haggerty <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:52:08 +0100

On 12/14/2011 11:17 AM, Leonardo Kim wrote:
> Branch names can contain slashes, so we can use 'development/foo' as a
> branch name. If I choose 'development' as a branch name, it doesn't
> work. There is a directory named development at '.git/refs/heads'
> directory. So we cannot create a file named development for
> 'refs/heads/development'.
> 
> An error message may occurs like below. Unfortunately, It is not of help to me.
> 'error: 'refs/heads/development/foo' exists; cannot create
> 'refs/heads/development'.

Assuming that the wording of the error message is not considered part of
the external API, it is trivial to change it.  What do you suggest?

Michael

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