Re: troublesome branch name in remote repo causes .git/config inconsistency in cloned repo

Pavel Pospíšil [off-list ref] writes:

I think that the problem may be with the branch name length. I think
that git branch allows to created branches with very long names,
however, such long name are not allowed in .git/config ...

I think we lifted this limit back in 1.8.0.1 timeframe.