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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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