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Re: Should `@` be really a valid git tag name?

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Carlo Arenas <carenas@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 17, 2021, 18:20 UTC
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On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 7:12 AM <gitmailinglist.bentolor@xoxy.net> wrote:
>
> A SO commenter pointed out, that git-check-ref-format forbids @ and
> maybe I should report this as a potential bug. Is it?
a reference that is named "@" only is invalid, but refs/tags/@ is not.
Carlo
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