From: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
To: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Cc: Tim Hutt <tdhutt@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bug: branch checkout is detached if the case doesn't match
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2021 15:00:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wnqk20qv.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YNKeq5mSu3f0A/5I@camp.crustytoothpaste.net>
On Wed, Jun 23 2021, brian m. carlson wrote:
> [...] In the mean time, you may prefer to adopt a naming convention
> for your project branches; for example, even though I use Linux and
> don't have this problem, I always use lowercase, which makes things
> easier for colleagues on other systems (and is also easier to type).
The reported issue is one that doesn't have to do with the naming of the
branch itself, but git accepting it due to how the ref backend interacts
with the FS.
As noted I've run into e.g. people writing unportable "head.." code,
which we happily resolve to "HEAD"., ditto "master", "Master", "MASTER"
etc. on OSX.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-23 13:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-20 19:45 Bug: branch checkout is detached if the case doesn't match Tim Hutt
2021-06-20 22:03 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-06-21 17:20 ` Tim Hutt
2021-06-23 2:38 ` brian m. carlson
2021-06-23 11:00 ` Tim Hutt
2021-06-23 13:00 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [this message]
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