Error code

Branch depth exceeded

The new branch would sit more than five levels deep, counting the project's version branch.

Fig. 03 Ratchet and pawlThe wheel turns freely one way, and the pawl stops it turning back.

Code: BRANCH_TOO_DEEP
Management API: 400

What to do

Branch from a ref nearer the top, such as the version branch, rather than from a branch of a branch.

The response

Every refusal is an application/problem+json document. Its detail says what went wrong in that request; its type is this page.

{
  "code": "BRANCH_TOO_DEEP",
  "type": "https://coho-cms.com/errors/branch-too-deep",
  "title": "Branch depth exceeded",
  "status": 400,
  "detail": "What went wrong in this request, in a sentence.",
  "instance": "/v1/projects/…"
}

Every code

The error codes, in a table with a filter.