Re: [PATCH] Validate nicknames of remote branches to prohibit confusing ones

> The original problem was that the parsers for configuration files were
> getting confused by seeing as nicknames remotes that involved
> directory-changing characters. In particular, the branches config file
> for ".." was particularly mystifying on platforms that can open
> directories and read odd data from them.
>
> The validation function was written by Junio Hamano (with a typo
> corrected).
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
> ---
> I was sort of expecting you to just put this in yourself, but since you 
> haven't, I wrote it up as an actual patch and fixed the polarity of the 
> test for slashes.