Richard Carlsson <carlsson.richard@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > This was a fun one. I accidentally upcased the first letter of a > branch beginning with "d" instead of > upcasing the -d option as I had intended, with a surprising result > (Mac OS). Easily reproduced: > > % git checkout -b dummy > Switched to a new branch 'dummy' > % git branch -d dummy > error: cannot delete branch 'dummy' used by worktree at '/Users/riccar/...' > % git branch -D dummy > error: cannot delete branch 'dummy' used by worktree at '/Users/riccar/...' > % git branch -d Dummy > Deleted branch Dummy (was c32dfb2). > % git log > fatal: your current branch 'dummy' does not have any commits yet > > On Linux, you instead get > > % git branch -d Dummy > error: branch 'Dummy' not found Perhaps you want to opt into the reftable backend before everybody else does? Because it does not store each reference (branches, tags and their friends) as a file on the filesystem, it would sidestep the above issue case-challenged filesystems has.
