Even from the command line I find slashes in branch names problematic, because slashes are as a "remote/branch" separator incites confusion about what is being referenced.
Other have different problems... https://stackoverflow.com/questions/273695/what-are-some-examples-of-commonly-used-practices-for-naming-git-branches "slashes can cause problems. Because branches are implemented as paths, you cannot have a branch named "foo" and another branch named "foo/bar". This can be confusing for new users." "I'm going to start a campaign to never use slashes in git branch naming. The reason for this is that if on a CI for example, you want to refer to the branch name when packaging code for example, you want to refer to the name of the branch when building a URI or PATH (for example), perhaps building a URI in a bash script; you will have trouble building the URI due to the slash adding a URL part. Yes its possible to replace the slash but it is going to take me to much time to sort out." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8872683 "If you use '/' is branch names you can create path conflicts. I've seen it happen and it took me a day to debug and figure out. There is some code checking for path conflicts in the git source but it's not invoked via all code paths that create branches. I recommend against using slashes in branch names unless you know what you are doing. For example: $ git branch fireos $ git branch fireos/feature-branch error: unable to create directory for .git/refs/heads/fireos/feature-branch fatal: Failed to lock ref for update: No such file or directory This happens because creating 'fireos' branch stores the sha1 in file .git/refs/heads/fireos. But if you later want to create branch 'fireos/feature-branch', git needs to store the sha1 in .git/refs/heads/fireos/feature-branch. This is impossible because 'fireos' is a file and cannot be a directory. Path conflict. It gets even uglier when you don't discover those conflicts until a pull or push. cheers -ben On Tue, 14 Jan 2020 at 07:45, Sean P. DeNigris <[email protected]> wrote: > As per common Git workflow, I named an issue branch "port/mac-pharo-7". > When > trying to load via: > Metacello new > baseline: 'VLC'; > repository: 'github://seandenigris/Pharo-LibVLC:port/mac-pharo-7'; > onConflict: [ :ex | ex allow ]; > load. > > I got: NotFound: Revspec 'port' not found.. > > Bug? > > > > ----- > Cheers, > Sean > -- > Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Developers-f1294837.html > >
