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From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Subject: RE: BUG or FEATURE? Use of '/' in branch names
Date: Fri, 02 May 2014 17:10:52 -0500
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Keith Derrick wrote:
> I can see the value in grouping branches in a directory tree under
> refs/heads, but wouldn't it make more sense to simply escape the '/'
> in the branch name so that 'hotfix/b1' is stored on disk as
> 'hotfix\/b1'?

This would be nice for remote helpers: Mercurial can have "hotfix" and
"hotifx/b1", so importing such a Mercurial repository creates problems.

-- 
Felipe Contreras