bug related to branches using / in name

From: Simon Holm Thøgersen <odie@cs.aau.dk>
Date: Jun 26, 2008, 19:42 UTC
Message-ID: <1214509350.28344.31.camel@odie.local>

Hi git community

I have a bug report I think is most easily explained by a list of commands that illustrates the bug.

cd /tmp mkdir git-bug cd git-bug git init touch foo git add foo git commit -a -m '...' git branch sched git clone file:///tmp/git-bug /tmp/git-bug-clone git branch -d sched git branch sched/urgent git branch sched/devel cd /tmp/git-bug-clone git pull

The last command does not succeed, but produces the following output

error: unable to resolve reference refs/remotes/origin/sched/devel: Not a directory

>From file:///tmp/git-bug

 * [new branch]      sched/devel -> origin/sched/devel
error: unable to resolve reference refs/remotes/origin/sched/urgent: Not
a directory
 * [new branch]      sched/urgent -> origin/sched/urgent

I can work around it by rm /tmp/git-bug-clone/.git/{,logs/}refs/remotes/origin/sched

but git should take care of this automatically, right?

I'm on git version 1.5.6.

Simon Holm Thøgersen