Re: Branch name support & character

From: Andrew Ardill <andrew.ardill@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 7, 2017, 05:31 UTC
Message-ID: <CAH5451m9asxzaOEzQ2Jjk9Ly97GVnb7DV0uZS=96B=yHCYLWCw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CA+zMtjmhrE54=ke6vVDGOcrbHkdPuE-Gf5cwQEp8LL2h+xen0g@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On 7 September 2017 at 13:27, 夏大雨 <xia.jason23@gmail.com> wrote:

> I want to merge branch a to branch b so I rename branch b to a&b, but
> when I push a&b to remote repo, '&' is took as & operator for shell,
> and git push fails. So it would be better that branch name support &
> character for me.

Have you tried quoting the branch name?

Using git checkout -b 'my&branch' works for me (single quotes around the branch name).

Pushing to a local remote also works: git push --set-upstream ../git-test-2 'my&branch'

That being said, I would advise not using & in branch names, specifically because it is a special character in shells.

Regards,

Andrew Ardill