From: Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker.net>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: Keith Derrick <keith.derrick@lge.com>,
"git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
"simon.busch@lge.com" <simon.busch@lge.com>
Subject: Re: BUG or FEATURE? Use of '/' in branch names
Date: Sat, 03 May 2014 09:35:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1399102525.2716.1.camel@spirit> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140502221617.GO9218@google.com>
On vr, 2014-05-02 at 15:16 -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> > $ git checkout -b hotfix/b2
> > error: unable to resolve reference refs/heads/hotfix/b2: Not a
> directory
> > fatal: Failed to lock ref for update: Not a directory
> > $
>
> That's an ugly message. I think we can do better. (hint hint)
2.0.0-rc2 has a better message already:
$ git checkout -b hotfix/b2
error: 'refs/heads/hotfix' exists; cannot create 'refs/heads/hotfix/b2'
fatal: Failed to lock ref for update: Not a directory
--
Dennis Kaarsemaker
www.kaarsemaker.net
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-03 7:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2014-05-02 22:04 ` BUG or FEATURE? Use of '/' in branch names Keith Derrick
2014-05-02 22:10 ` Felipe Contreras
2014-05-02 22:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-02 22:16 ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-05-02 22:36 ` Keith Derrick
2014-05-02 22:43 ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-05-03 7:35 ` Dennis Kaarsemaker [this message]
2014-05-04 5:39 ` Michael Haggerty
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