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Re: [PATCH] We do not like "HEAD" as a new branch name

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Dec 15, 2005, 22:41 UTC
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Hi,
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > +		/* do not allow "HEAD" as ref name */
> > +		if (ch == 'H' && (!strcmp(cp, "EAD") ||
> > +					!strncmp(cp, "EAD/", 4)))
> 
> Why forbid HEAD in the middle, like "refs/heads/HEAD/frotz"?
> Confusion avoidance?
Exactly.
> We might want to forbid anything that matches /^.*_?HEAD$/ to catch
> ORIG_HEAD for example, though.
Okay, I think this is what *I* would want to be illegal:

HEAD, ORIG_HEAD, FETCH_HEAD MERGE_HEAD

Others? Or should I really test for just *anything* ending in _HEAD besides HEAD itself?

Ciao, Dscho

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