• Traister101@lemmy.today
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    7 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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      6 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.

    • BehindTheBarrier@programming.dev
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      6 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.