Ambiguous Names with GIT?

Question

I\'m trying to check out one of my local branches, named TEAM20-lab2-release. When I try to do this, I get an ambiguous refname error:

$ git branch TEAM20-l         


        

Answer 1

to get you started locating ambiguous refs

function branchid() 
{ 
    echo $(basename "$(dirname "$1")")/$(basename "$1"); 
}

for ref in $(git for-each-ref | cut -f2)
    do echo -e "$ref\t$(branchid "$ref")"
done | 
    sort --key 2 | uniq -Df 2