From: Felipe Contreras Date: Fri, 02 May 2014 22:10:52 GMT Subject: RE: BUG or FEATURE? Use of '/' in branch names Message-ID: <536417ecd0104_1c7bdcd2f0b9@nysa.notmuch> In-Reply-To: Keith Derrick wrote: > I can see the value in grouping branches in a directory tree under > refs/heads, but wouldn't it make more sense to simply escape the '/' > in the branch name so that 'hotfix/b1' is stored on disk as > 'hotfix\/b1'? This would be nice for remote helpers: Mercurial can have "hotfix" and "hotifx/b1", so importing such a Mercurial repository creates problems. -- Felipe Contreras