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Re: What is 'git BRANCH'?

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jul 29, 2008, 22:24 UTC
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Jurko Gospodnetić <jurko.gospodnetic@docte.hr> writes:
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>   Hi.
>
>   I typed in "git BRANCH" by accident and got the error message:
> "fatal: cannot handle BRANCH internally".
>
>   What does that mean?
>
>   It is different from the usual "git: 'yada-yada' is not a
> git-command. See 'git --help'." message you get when you type in an
> incorrect command name.
Just a guess; your git is installed on a case-challenged filesystem?
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