Re: [PATCH] We do not like "HEAD" as a new branch name

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Dec 15, 2005, 23:38 UTC
Message-ID: <7v4q5alyms.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0512152339530.4962@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

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> Okay, I think this is what *I* would want to be illegal:
>
> HEAD,
> ORIG_HEAD,
> FETCH_HEAD
> MERGE_HEAD
>
> Others? Or should I really test for just *anything* ending in _HEAD 
> besides HEAD itself?

Just to futureproof ourselves, how about this?

	/^(?:.*/)?(?:[A-Z0-9]+_)?HEAD$/

The last path component being "HEAD" or capital-or-digit followed by underscore followed by "HEAD".