From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:08:47 GMT
Subject: Re: Invalid refspec?
Message-ID: <7vhcf1w6v4.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0803201256080.19665@iabervon.org>

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".