Re: Creation of a branch named that has a directory prefix equal to the name of another branch fail.

Tommaso Ercole [off-list ref] writes:

As per compiled bug report, creation of a branch that has a prefix that map to a folder, when that prefix is just an existing branch in the repo fails.

I.E. 'a/b/c' when 'a/b' just exists.

Yup, that is one of the natural consequences of the design to
organize refs in a directory like hierarchies.  There are various
ref backends (e.g. packed-refs that already exists, and reftable)
that could potentially store both D and D/F at the same time, but
it is very likely that the higher layer that calls into these ref
backends will keep the behaviour as a policy, to ensure that those
on older versions of Git can smoothly interoperate with newer
versions of Git.

Thanks.