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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Also handle CVS branches with a '/' in their name
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 00:02:53 -0700
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To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> I track a CVS project which has a branch with a '/' in the branch name.
> Since git wants the branch name to be a file name at the same time,
> translate that character to a '-'. This should work well, despite the
> fact that a division and a difference are completely different :-)

My feeling is that there should be nothing to prevent you from
having a non-flat namespace in .git/refs/heads; i.e. we should
allow ".git/refs/heads/foo/bar".  Some of the existing tools may
be forgetting to call either "mkdir -p $(dirname $ref)" if they
are written in shell, or safe_create_leading_directories(ref) in
C, but I consider that is a bug.