Re: error: src refspec refs/heads/master matches more than one.

> Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> +	if (!force && dwim_ref(name, strlen(name), sha1, &real_ref))
>> +		die(_("creating ref refs/heads/%s makes %s ambiguous.\n"
>> +		      "Use -f to create it anyway."),
>> +		    name, name);
>
> Does this check still allow you to create a branch "refs/heads/next"
> and then later create a branch "next"?  The latter will introduce an
> ambiguity without any prevention, even though the prevention would
> trigger if the order in which these two branches are created is
> swapped--- the end result has ambiguity but the safety covers only one
> avenue to the confusing situation.
>
> And the only way I can think of to avoid that kind of confusion is
> to forbid creation of a subset of possible names by reserving a set
> of known (but arbitrary) prefixes---which I am not sure is a good
> way to go.  At least not yet.