From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 19:34:31 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] We do not like "HEAD" as a new branch name
Message-ID: <7vacf2p320.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0512151244230.22400@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

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

> +		/* do not allow "HEAD" as ref name */
> +		if (ch == 'H' && (!strcmp(cp, "EAD") ||
> +					!strncmp(cp, "EAD/", 4)))

Why forbid HEAD in the middle, like "refs/heads/HEAD/frotz"?
Confusion avoidance?

We might want to forbid anything that matches /^.*_?HEAD$/ to catch
ORIG_HEAD for example, though.