Request for comment: Potential change to dist-git branch structure

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 16:34:05 -0800,
  Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
> "f14/user/fred/topic/mybranch"  or other such craziness.  When I went to
> test this, I realized that git won't allow you to have both "f14" and
> "f14/topic" as branches, because of the way the git metadata works on

Does there need to be some sort of check for / in maintainer created
branch names to prevent problems?

> My hope is that the impact would be minimal.  Git allows branch renames,
> and can successfully rename "f14/master" to "f14".  All the history is
> renamed.  We should be able to do this without an outage of the git server.

Is this going to break things for people that having set up origin tracking
for multiple releases in the same repo?