On 12/04/2010 09:52 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 16:34:05 -0800,
Jesse Keating <jkeating(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> "f14/user/fred/topic/mybranch" or other such craziness. When I went to
> test this, I realized that git won't allow you to have both "f14" and
> "f14/topic" as branches, because of the way the git metadata works on
Does there need to be some sort of check for / in maintainer created
branch names to prevent problems?
For the fedpkg commands where this would come into place, perhaps. Like
switch-branch. Hard to judge what will cause problems though.
> My hope is that the impact would be minimal. Git allows branch renames,
> and can successfully rename "f14/master" to "f14". All the
history is
> renamed. We should be able to do this without an outage of the git server.
Is this going to break things for people that having set up origin tracking
for multiple releases in the same repo?
Can you explain this a bit more please?
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