On Jul 29, 2008, at 3:24 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
Jurko Gospodnetić <jurko.gospodnetic@xxxxxxxx> writes:
Hi.
I typed in "git BRANCH" by accident and got the error message:
"fatal: cannot handle BRANCH internally".
What does that mean?
It is different from the usual "git: 'yada-yada' is not a
git-command. See 'git --help'." message you get when you type in an
incorrect command name.
Just a guess; your git is installed on a case-challenged filesystem?
From what I can tell, this happens when you execute one of the git-*
builtin binaries using a name that doesn't actually match the binary,
case-sensitively. When you type `git BRANCH` on OS X, git matches that
against the git-branch binary and executes it, but argv[0] contains
"git-BRANCH". When this is compared by the git-branch binary to the
list of internal commands, it comes up empty, and the fallback code
(to die with "fatal: cannot handle BRANCH internally") gets executed
instead.
In other words, this is identical to running `/usr/local/libexec/git-
core/git-BRANCH` or to doing something like `exec -a git-BRANCH /usr/
local/libexec/git-core/git-branch` (this example should work on any
filesystem).
-Kevin Ballard
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