Re: bug report? fatal: Ambiguous object name: 'xxx' during branch operation
From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:53:14
Subsystem:
the rest · Maintainer:
Linus Torvalds
Possibly related (same subject, not in this thread)
- 2016-06-15 · bug report? fatal: Ambiguous object name: 'xxx' during branch operation · Arya Irani <hidden>
Arya Irani [off-list ref] writes:
If the default start-point for a branch is HEAD, then how can it fail due to ambiguity?
The whole create_branch() codepath is a mess and needs to be cleaned up, but in the shorter term, something like this, perhaps? builtin/branch.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/builtin/branch.c b/builtin/branch.c
index d8cccf7..02d0653 100644
--- a/builtin/branch.c
+++ b/builtin/branch.c@@ -807,7 +807,7 @@ int cmd_branch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) } else if (argc > 0 && argc <= 2) { if (kinds != REF_LOCAL_BRANCH) die(_("-a and -r options to 'git branch' do not make sense with a branch name")); - create_branch(head, argv[0], (argc == 2) ? argv[1] : head, + create_branch(head, argv[0], (argc == 2) ? argv[1] : "HEAD", force_create, reflog, 0, track); } else usage_with_options(builtin_branch_usage, options);