From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 01:01:35 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] Introduce optional "keywords" on tag objects
Message-ID: <7vejkj4840.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <200706110116.15673.johan@herland.net>

Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> writes:

> On Sunday 10 June 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> writes:
>> > For now, I couldn't find a good reason why the set of allowed characters
>> > for keywords should be smaller than for the tag name.
>> 
>> The set of allowed tag names excludes shell metacharacters,
>> primarily to help scripting.  
>
> It already does? Or are you proposing this? Right now the code doesn't 
> enforce anything like this, AFAICS...

Ah, I was being silly.  I somehow thought you were talking about
valid names you can have under refs/tags/.