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Re: Branch name support & character

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Sep 8, 2017, 01:18 UTC
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Andrew Ardill <andrew.ardill@gmail.com> writes:
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> 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'

Thanks for sanity-checking. I was wondering if we have codepaths that botch quoting (we shouldn't, and if there is, we should fix it).

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