# bug report? fatal: Ambiguous object name: 'xxx' during branch operation 2 messages from 2012-03-06 to 2012-03-06. Participants: Arya Irani, Junio C Hamano. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/29865 ## Arya Irani, 2012-03-06 23:18 Subject: bug report? fatal: Ambiguous object name: 'xxx' during branch operation Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAB1hNr8-iPbXD-7eEOxZtrJWO78V8sDmwWWQRMMExvtGtpPrhw%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` If the default start-point for a branch is HEAD, then how can it fail due to ambiguity?  Or what the heck is going on here? :-) $ git branch -a * 1.1-SNAPSHOT   master   remotes/1.1-SNAPSHOT   remotes/trunk $ $ git branch getProviders warning: refname '1.1-SNAPSHOT' is ambiguous. fatal: Ambiguous object name: '1.1-SNAPSHOT'. $ $ cat .git/HEAD ref: refs/heads/1.1-SNAPSHOT $ $ git branch getProviders refs/heads/1.1-SNAPSHOT $ success! [svn-remote "svn"] url = https://host/svn/all fetch = GHIE/maven-projects/hie-util/trunk:refs/remotes/trunk branches = GHIE/maven-projects/hie-util/branches/*:refs/remotes/* tags = GHIE/maven-projects/hie-util/tags/*:refs/remotes/tags/* Thanks, Arya P.S.  I'll use --prefix for svn to avoid this in the future! ``` ## Junio C Hamano, 2012-03-06 23:44 Subject: Re: bug report? fatal: Ambiguous object name: 'xxx' during branch operation Message-ID: <7vvcmhpa66.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7vvcmhpa66.fsf%40alter.siamese.dyndns.org In-Reply-To: ``` Arya Irani writes: > If the default start-point for a branch is HEAD, then how can it fail > due to ambiguity? The whole create_branch() codepath is a mess and needs to be cleaned up, but in the shorter term, something like this, perhaps? builtin/branch.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/builtin/branch.c b/builtin/branch.c index d8cccf7..02d0653 100644 --- a/builtin/branch.c +++ b/builtin/branch.c @@ -807,7 +807,7 @@ int cmd_branch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) } else if (argc > 0 && argc <= 2) { if (kinds != REF_LOCAL_BRANCH) die(_("-a and -r options to 'git branch' do not make sense with a branch name")); - create_branch(head, argv[0], (argc == 2) ? argv[1] : head, + create_branch(head, argv[0], (argc == 2) ? argv[1] : "HEAD", force_create, reflog, 0, track); } else usage_with_options(builtin_branch_usage, options); ```