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Re: What's cooking in git.git (May 2013, #04; Wed, 15)

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Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
Date
May 21, 2013, 07:13 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> In addition to your topic, it may be a good idea to notice this at
> the Porcelain level (e.g. "checkout -b" and "branch", but not at the
> "update-ref" level) and warn or even die if a Porcelain tries to
> create a branch with such a name.

But if we're going there and deprecating some ways of naming refs, please also disallow some other funny things in the same go. Michael suggested this earlier in some thread: the fewer ways we have of legally spelling refnames, the more syntax is available for revision syntax.

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Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
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  1. Junio C HamanoMay 15, 2013
  2. David AguilarMay 16, 2013
  3. Duy NguyenMay 20, 2013
  4. Junio C HamanoMay 20, 2013
  5. Thomas RastMay 21, 2013
  6. Junio C HamanoMay 21, 2013
  7. Duy NguyenMay 27, 2013
  8. Junio C HamanoMay 28, 2013
  9. Felipe ContrerasMay 20, 2013

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