From: Tony Sales <vinux.development@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 22:22:29 GMT
Subject: I want to report a bug/anomaly in Git
Message-ID: <AANLkTimt+U3oo4FaywUr86ArG8d29yWAeVYhpRkBYa_K@mail.gmail.com>

Hi, how do I report a bug/anomaly in git? I have looked on the git
website and tried to ask on the git irc on freenode but couldn't post,
even after requesting a 'voice'. The bug is that if you happen to
create a new remote branch which shares it's name with an existing
directory in the top level of the git repository, git then seems to
get confused and the: git checkout <branch> - command doesn't switch
to that branch or turn tracking on (and seems to think it was created
from origin/<branch> rather than from refs/remotes/origin/<branch>),
which it does if the branch doesn't share a name with an existing top
level directory. This can be rectified by running: git checkout
--track -b debian origin/debian - but this confused me for several
hours and it was only because I had another repository with the same
branch names, but different top level directories where the command
worked that it finally dawned on me what the problem was. I then
deleted the branch and created a new one with a differnt name and
everything worked as expected.

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