From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 02 May 2014 22:16:07 GMT
Subject: Re: BUG or FEATURE? Use of '/' in branch names
Message-ID: <xmqq61lnakt4.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <AAC0CF0A2CCEC34CBE983015FD81C4F7392A504B61@AICEXMBXCL02.LGE.NET>

Keith Derrick <keith.derrick@lge.com> writes:

> The problem arises when a branch already exists with a name
> matching the stem of the new branch name.
> ...
> But, for the reverse reason, I can't now create the branch named 'hotfix'

All correct.  Allowing '/' in branch names came about not with a
careful design but was done by a happy accident, and we accepted it
under the condition "as long as users know that they cannot have
branches D and D/F at the same time, that is fine".

An obvious alternative convention you can adopt would be to use not
'/' but some other separating characters (e.g. "_") as your
hierarchy delimiter, if you must have D and D_F at the same time.