From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:53:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 19/22] resolve_ref(): emit warnings for improperly-formatted references
Message-ID: <7vr52jfm8i.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20111011161652.GA15629@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> I wonder if the right solution is for us to be more picky about what can
> be found in $GIT_DIR. Maybe matching all-uppercase, or starting with
> "refs/", which I think would match existing convention?

I think we've discussed tightening it a few years ago already.

HEAD, MERGE_HEAD, FETCH_HEAD, etc. all are "^[_A-Z]*$" and it may even be
a good idea to insist "^[_A-Z]*HEAD$" or even "^([A-Z][A-Z]*_)?HEAD$".