Hi, "Boettger, Heiko" <Heiko.Boettger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hi, > > I discovered an interesting problem when using `git checkout` to which > I couldn't find a good solution. We have an automatic system trying to > checkout a branch only when it exists. To do so we check whether `git > rev-parse` finds a commit for given branch name: > > git rev-parse "${BRANCH_NAME}" || git rev-parse "refs/remotes/${UPSTREAM}/${BRANCH_NAME}" > > Unfortunately somebody used the branch name "add-gcc10" and `git rev-parse` which didn't exist on one repository. However `git rev-parse` > also supports to parse the `git-describe` format which resulted in checkout a commit starting with "cc10". Can't you prepend "refs/heads/" to BRANCH_NAME to disambiguate? -- Kyle