From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:55:12 GMT
Subject: Re: Parallell Development / Switching to GIT
Message-ID: <4A4CA020.5020108@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <B81058949321C8439B9D742F5F8D8FCA01A75D15@hpserver.intranet.local>

Please don't top-post on this list.

Patrick Neuner - Futureweb.at schrieb:
>> You cannot have refs/heads/dev and refs/heads/dev/featureA at the same
>> time, just like you cannot have a file and a directory with the same
>> name
>> at the same time. In fact, the refs "database" is implemented as
>> physical
>> files on the file system.
> 
> ok, I see, well then this howto (at the end of page) seems to be misleading. 
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/howto/update-hook-example.txt
> as it actually works with the update hook, but not with git itself. 

Are you refering to the example line such as

        refs/heads/bw/.*	linus


? Of course, you can have refs/heads/dev/featureA in your repository (and
the shortened branch name would obviously be "dev/featureA"), but then you
cannot have a branch named "dev", i.e. refs/heads/dev.

I don't see how the cited document would be misleading in this regard.

-- Hannes