Using the slash character in Git branch name

Question

I\'m pretty sure I saw somewhere in a popular Git project the branches had a pattern like \"feature/xyz\".

However when I try to create a branch with the slash chara

Answer 1

Sometimes that problem occurs if you already have a branch with the base name.

I tried this:

git checkout -b features/aName origin/features/aName

Unfortunately, I already had a branch named features, and I got the exception of the question asker.

Removing the branch features resolved the problem, the above command worked.