From: Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker.net>
Date: Sat, 03 May 2014 07:35:25 GMT
Subject: Re: BUG or FEATURE? Use of '/' in branch names
Message-ID: <1399102525.2716.1.camel@spirit>
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


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Dennis Kaarsemaker
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