From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: Leonardo Kim <dalinaum@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Branch names with slashes
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 08:02:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EEAED0D.90006@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGcUY13TOodu1BO3DCoNnVvNZ9QkWAbD-RmyqQX6P1q6tcO+yg@mail.gmail.com>
Am 12/14/2011 11:17, schrieb Leonardo Kim:
> 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'.
>
> I think that dealing with a file system and an error message above is
> not sufficient for a novice like me. I hope that it should be
> improved.
Sorry, I don't see anything in the error message that makes a connection
between refs and a file system; it only says "foo/bar exists; cannot
create foo". I really don't see how this can be improved to avoid confusion.
-- Hannes
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-16 7:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-14 10:17 Branch names with slashes Leonardo Kim
2011-12-14 12:52 ` Michael Haggerty
2011-12-15 20:40 ` Neal Kreitzinger
2011-12-15 22:41 ` Michael Haggerty
2011-12-16 0:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-12-16 7:02 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
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