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Currently the "Create Branch" dialog does not verify if the the branch name. It does not check for invalid characters as space or tilde (see http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-check-ref-format.html).
See http://egit.eclipse.org/r/#change,1144
Fixed with da4e6a60c780e98411503b2de3ead5cde1c7341b