From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:44:12 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] Improved infrastructure for refname normalization Message-ID: <7vwrdd90df.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <4E6E2122.8000201@alum.mit.edu> Michael Haggerty writes: > OTOH I am again having serious doubts that trying to support > unnormalized refnames is a good idea. Sorry, I am confused. I thought the way you are planning forward is to leave unnormalized ones unchecked as the current code does (and mark the places that do so with _unsafe()), with the eventual goal of fixing the caller to pass only normalized ones to make call to the "safe" version?