On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 3:34 AM, Ingo Rohloff <lund...@gmx.de> wrote: > Hello, > > while trying out git (version 1.7.9.5), I did this: > > git clone -- ssh://myserver/~rohloff/git/w1.git w1 > > So I just cloned a test repository. > The in the cloned "w1" repository I executed: > > git branch origin/master > git branch remotes/origin/master > git branch refs/remotes/origin/master > > I now have got three *local* branches with the above names, which > now seems to make it impossible to refer to the master branch > from the "origin" *remote* repository. > > Wouldn't it make sense to forbid such names for local branches ? > For example to enforce some rules like a local branch name *must not* > start with "remotes/" or "refs/" ?
See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/242096/focus=242181. The proposal basically is you can't create those branches without -f. -- Duy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
