BUG or FEATURE? Use of '/' in branch names

According to https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-check-ref-format.html a '/' is character to use in a branch name. git imposes the following rules on how references are named: 1. They can include slash / for hierarchical (directory) grouping, but no slash-separated component

Re: BUG or FEATURE? Use of '/' in branch names

tried should work. In which case, how it's been *implemented* seems to be breaking the promise of the functional specification (if you view the documentation as such). Keith On 05/02/2014 03:16 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Hi Keith, Keith Derrick wrote: $ git checkout -b hotfix

BUG: check-ref-format and rev-parse can not handle branches with an @ in their name combined with @{u}

--abbrev-ref HEAD@{u} origin/master $ Envronment: $git version git version 1.8.5.2 $lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID:Ubuntu Description:Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS Release:12.04 Codename:precise Keith Derrick -- To unsubscribe from this list: send