• BehindTheBarrier@programming.dev
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    17 days ago

    I never considered branch names to be a vector, but in hindsight it makes total sense when put into a workflow like that. What possibly surprised me even more, was that branch names weren’t limited to basic characters or at least no special signs. I obviously see the case for all the extended characters outside the latin alphabet, such as Chinese characters, but I totally expected restrictions on special symbols like ", ', /, \, ;, etc.

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      17 days ago

      / is used to separate the same branch in different repos. For example origin/main and remote/main. Surprising that the other stuff is legal though

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        17 days ago

        You can still freely use / in branch names. Having remote branches available as remote/branch is just a convenience, and you can delete or modify them locally. It’s common to use / in branch names, too.

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        16 days ago

        That’s true, i didn’t think about that when I wrote it.

        I’m used to the world being pretty simple though, so for me that slash has always just been a visual representation of the location of the branch if that makes sense. We don’t have to have a slash in the branch name, only to use it to represent where that branch is located. It could have been something git only used for presentation.