From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 18:25:55 GMT
Subject: Re: howto handle name clashes
Message-ID: <7vlimrtbrg.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4F6C7539.3080607@tu-clausthal.de>

Sven Strickroth <sven.strickroth@tu-clausthal.de> writes:

> how to handle name clashes for branches and tags? Is there anything I
> can add to the refspec to make the name unique?
>
> E.g.
> - for merging "git merge --no-ff refs/branches/test" works, but
> generates a not so nice default merge message. ("merged  commit
> refs/branches/test" instead of "merged branch test")

That's the price you pay for naming different things the same and having
to disambiguate it.

> - how to drop a remote tag/branch ("git push origin :test" does not work)

"git push origin :refs/tags/test"

It is sad that some people teach new people shorthand without telling them
that what they are teaching are merely shorthand and cause confusion like
this.