Re: Minor Bug in Renaming Branches

From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date: Jun 6, 2016, 19:35 UTC
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kb77m8ymDkJGMaWi8yOdSphpYifDPHQ=+nZMBhRi47i9w@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <54505ef2-7db6-8bc4-0ffb-0ac28c7d6046@web.de>

On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 12:17 PM, Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> wrote:

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> A limitation is introduced by Mac OS and Windows:
> BRANCH/NAME and branch/name refer to the same object in the file
> system.
> As a workaround, you can pack the branch names:
> git pack-refs --all

Once you packed a branch into the packed refs file, you can create another loose branch of different capitalization, which then 'hides' the packed ref?

That sounds error prone to me, as a seemingly unrelated branch changed its value:

    git branch BRANCH 012345
    git pack-refs --all
    git branch branch BRANCH^
    git rev-parse BRANCH
    (I'd expect BRANCH^ as return)

(I don't have a windows machine for testing here, so that is pure speculation)

Thanks, Stefan