From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stefan Beller Subject: Re: Minor Bug in Renaming Branches Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2016 11:09:37 -0700 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: "git@vger.kernel.org" To: Samuel Lijin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jun 06 20:09:45 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1b9yy8-0004xJ-Ig for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Jun 2016 20:09:44 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751590AbcFFSJk (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jun 2016 14:09:40 -0400 Received: from mail-qg0-f51.google.com ([209.85.192.51]:35625 "EHLO mail-qg0-f51.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751892AbcFFSJj (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jun 2016 14:09:39 -0400 Received: by mail-qg0-f51.google.com with SMTP id 93so46416575qgx.2 for ; Mon, 06 Jun 2016 11:09:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=YSLSgNo67MUac0JoloTOypS1JAZG7JVO/fo/yh8ADFU=; b=on3ZHT79fQ5GO/bpy83dzpxn7Bs68h+LSqrAHwMLa4XaXthecnShqJMIto5KV4Dxq5 QJZZ3dqSQgXXRxJ6Qi2qjRBuEqVUlXDzM8py3nKCVAPFMoKUYfLw88A5j3HI864p1gfr SeoGwnNCgLw+yqldkg/MdjTgsuecP8FWa99ZAVfAKl1Migk4lEt1rKeou8CHHZlgz1kL 6Gta3zTQhkhNgRZQnWrb+G9iQOgATGyDjnCJPPYaZZxePeUQkzVp4wAX7lGOv/kbAoIo gv9MIlXmIo9PcOQ3Mg4ftKcNU2TcNuOiev1E18vYwL2NB9rSZ0OFKSpgltqjE0myE/cV ILIg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=YSLSgNo67MUac0JoloTOypS1JAZG7JVO/fo/yh8ADFU=; b=XS9VIJPI7UOB+yu/Zs/A7brnEF1IjwBcQQTl1UzySePR5jmjP1IXoX635H/Iz5UgeF cYn87MjrkYQjyY4coId/ewbSuiP5F7SNcDqg9BRLkot6utJViZ9QP5pnyThOqYAlV/po mk82gs0sDIqoM0EaYijcmk7Ii7TB3ok8Ef72H98rDFMbs0RIU1hO2HZSYdn//0hMwGmN VpRKcKlkkAi/nPLRAaSwP+mCJrwvCF22cclB4tvu7imph99lnkGt24oSxuI3E40B8Ubx 69lVOBqznXoFuptNF+ds2zh+wQuSYFarKiRco0ZKzFM9u5O1eYzDLpo6bj0qlyo7e4qQ jgdw== X-Gm-Message-State: ALyK8tJNoDMGmzKHG4LUhqsFDEuqk350C7RcTmpQvPTuWMXnT1juDJIZz3AdyYk002nS1NDx9hr+4LlXFx4GiXrA X-Received: by 10.140.153.135 with SMTP id 129mr17372725qhz.71.1465236578390; Mon, 06 Jun 2016 11:09:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.200.55.212 with HTTP; Mon, 6 Jun 2016 11:09:37 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 10:52 AM, Samuel Lijin wrote: > user@windows-box MINGW64 ~/sandbox (branch/name) > $ git branch -m BRANCH/NAME > fatal: A branch named 'BRANCH/NAME' already exists. Yeah, branches/refs are treated as if they are files on a file system (which they are currently). So depending on the file system used you have problems with case sensitive things.