From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 22:22:16 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Validate nicknames of remote branches to prohibit confusing ones Message-ID: <7vskztg8rr.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Daniel Barkalow writes: > 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 > --- > 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. Thanks. I am bogged down in day-job these days and have been down-sick for the past 36 hours.