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Re: [PATCH] Also handle CVS branches with a '/' in their name

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Aug 17, 2005, 07:02 UTC
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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> I track a CVS project which has a branch with a '/' in the branch name.
> Since git wants the branch name to be a file name at the same time,
> translate that character to a '-'. This should work well, despite the
> fact that a division and a difference are completely different :-)

My feeling is that there should be nothing to prevent you from having a non-flat namespace in .git/refs/heads; i.e. we should allow ".git/refs/heads/foo/bar". Some of the existing tools may be forgetting to call either "mkdir -p $(dirname $ref)" if they are written in shell, or safe_create_leading_directories(ref) in C, but I consider that is a bug.

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