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Re: Invalid refspec?

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Mar 20, 2008, 19:08 UTC
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Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:
> ... but there's no particular need to give a 
> different error for "HEAD~1:foo" versus 
> "e83c5163316f89bfbde7d9ab23ca2e25604af290:foo" based on the presence of a 
> ~.

This is a valid argument in that e83c51... could be (and currently has to be) a ref name in a fetch refspec.

But we still need to reject something like "HEAD**1:foo".
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  3. Junio C HamanoMar 20, 2008
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