Please don't top-post on this list. Patrick Neuner - Futureweb.at schrieb: >> You cannot have refs/heads/dev and refs/heads/dev/featureA at the same >> time, just like you cannot have a file and a directory with the same >> name >> at the same time. In fact, the refs "database" is implemented as >> physical >> files on the file system. > > ok, I see, well then this howto (at the end of page) seems to be misleading. > http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/howto/update-hook-example.txt > as it actually works with the update hook, but not with git itself. Are you refering to the example line such as refs/heads/bw/.* linus ? Of course, you can have refs/heads/dev/featureA in your repository (and the shortened branch name would obviously be "dev/featureA"), but then you cannot have a branch named "dev", i.e. refs/heads/dev. I don't see how the cited document would be misleading in this regard. -- Hannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html