Hi,
"Boettger, Heiko" <heiko.boett...@karlstorz.com> 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
