Hi, On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Johannes Schindelin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I track a CVS project which has a branch with a '/' in the branch name. > > Since git wants the branch name to be a file name at the same time, > > translate that character to a '-'. This should work well, despite the > > fact that a division and a difference are completely different :-) > > My feeling is that there should be nothing to prevent you from > having a non-flat namespace in .git/refs/heads; i.e. we should > allow ".git/refs/heads/foo/bar". That may be true, but CVS branches being named "Hänsel/Gretel" do not logically denote hierarchies. I never ever saw hierarchical CVS branch names with a "/" separator. I saw some with a "." separator. My feeling is that it would be wrong to map CVS branch names to a hierarchy. Ciao, Dscho
