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Re:A Git catastrophe cleaned up by mjrbrennan on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @08:50PM (#13234168)
I always use '/' in the branch name and have never had any issues. Can you explain why this would be an issue?
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Re:A Git catastrophe cleaned up by CJefferson on Thursday December 22, 2016 @04:07AM (#13235963)
The only issue I am aware of is that beginners often assume, based on basically every tutorial, that / has a special meaning, it is used to denote remote/branchname.
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