From: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 07:13:45 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (May 2013, #04; Wed, 15)
Message-ID: <87a9nobyae.fsf@linux-k42r.v.cablecom.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vk3mtwrq9.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

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.

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch