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Branch names with slashes

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LKLeonardo Kim <dalinaum@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 14, 2011, 10:17 UTC
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Hi

Branch names can contain slashes, so we can use 'development/foo' as a branch name. If I choose 'development' as a branch name, it doesn't work. There is a directory named development at '.git/refs/heads' directory. So we cannot create a file named development for 'refs/heads/development'.

An error message may occurs like below. Unfortunately, It is not of help to me. 'error: 'refs/heads/development/foo' exists; cannot create 'refs/heads/development'.

I think that dealing with a file system and an error message above is not sufficient for a novice like me. I hope that it should be improved.

Thanks for your response. Leonardo YongUk KIM

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