Re: Branch deletion question / possible bug?

On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 5:29 PM, Tang (US), Pik S [off-list ref] wrote:

Hi,

I discovered that I was able to delete the feature branch I was in, due to some fat fingering on my part and case insensitivity.  I never realized this could be done before.  A quick google search did not give me a whole lot to work with...

Steps to reproduce:
1. Create a feature branch, "editCss"
2. git checkout master
3. git checkout editCSS
4. git checkout editCss
5. git branch -d editCSS

Are you running on a case-insensitive file system? What version of
git? I thought I recalled seeing commits to help avoid creating
branches of the same name with separate case when we know we're on a
file system which is case-insensitive..

Normally, it should have been impossible for a user to delete the branch they're on.  And the deletion left me in a weird state that took a while to dig out of.

I know this was a user error, but I was also wondering if this was a bug.

If we have not yet done this, I think we should. Long term this would
be fixed by using a separate format to store refs than the filesystem,
which has a few projects being worked on but none have been put into a
release.

Thanks,
Jake

Thanks,

Pik Tang