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From: Arya Irani <arya.irani@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: bug report? fatal: Ambiguous object name: 'xxx' during branch operation
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 18:18:40 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAB1hNr8-iPbXD-7eEOxZtrJWO78V8sDmwWWQRMMExvtGtpPrhw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAB1hNr8itJV1-pzWxUo1KPsZNivg+KuRq_5jUwLUyCUpk7k=4w@mail.gmail.com>

If the default start-point for a branch is HEAD, then how can it fail
due to ambiguity?  Or what the heck is going on here? :-)

$ git branch -a
* 1.1-SNAPSHOT
  master
  remotes/1.1-SNAPSHOT
  remotes/trunk
$

$ git branch getProviders
warning: refname '1.1-SNAPSHOT' is ambiguous.
fatal: Ambiguous object name: '1.1-SNAPSHOT'.
$

$ cat .git/HEAD
ref: refs/heads/1.1-SNAPSHOT
$

$ git branch getProviders refs/heads/1.1-SNAPSHOT
$
success!


[svn-remote "svn"]
url = https://host/svn/all
fetch = GHIE/maven-projects/hie-util/trunk:refs/remotes/trunk
branches = GHIE/maven-projects/hie-util/branches/*:refs/remotes/*
tags = GHIE/maven-projects/hie-util/tags/*:refs/remotes/tags/*

Thanks,
Arya

P.S.  I'll use --prefix for svn to avoid this in the future!

       reply	other threads:[~2012-03-06 23:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CAB1hNr8itJV1-pzWxUo1KPsZNivg+KuRq_5jUwLUyCUpk7k=4w@mail.gmail.com>
2012-03-06 23:18 ` Arya Irani [this message]
2012-03-06 23:44   ` bug report? fatal: Ambiguous object name: 'xxx' during branch operation Junio C Hamano

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