From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Josef Wolf Subject: Re: error: src refspec refs/heads/master matches more than one. Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 23:53:48 +0100 Message-ID: <20140214225348.GD17817@raven.inka.de> References: <20140214113136.GA17817@raven.inka.de> <87a9dt981o.fsf@igel.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Feb 15 00:00:19 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WERk2-0004A2-TQ for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Feb 2014 00:00:19 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752831AbaBNXAL (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Feb 2014 18:00:11 -0500 Received: from quechua.inka.de ([193.197.184.2]:37848 "EHLO mail.inka.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752470AbaBNXAL (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Feb 2014 18:00:11 -0500 Received: from raven.inka.de (uucp@[127.0.0.1]) by mail.inka.de with uucp (rmailwrap 0.5) id 1WERjt-0005vJ-LP; Sat, 15 Feb 2014 00:00:09 +0100 Received: by raven.inka.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9C0EA7629A; Fri, 14 Feb 2014 23:53:48 +0100 (CET) Mail-Followup-To: Josef Wolf , Git Mailing List Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 08:32:07AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > A. You are not allowed to call your branch with a string that begins with > 'refs/heads/'. > B. Why? > A. Because it will confuse you. > B. I know what I am doing. > A. ??? Your reply in http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/1-8-0-git-checkout-refs-heads-foo-checks-out-branch-foo-td5999936.html suggests that one should explicitly use the refs/heads prefix to to work around ambiguities in some situations. Are there any best-practices sugestions out there about when to use the refs/heads prefix and when not? It looks like git delibaretly cuts off this prefix in some situations. I don't think my problem stems from something like "git branch refs/heads/master" Anyway, some clarifications about the usage of this prefix would be great! -- Josef Wolf jw@raven.inka.de