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Re: tracking repository

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Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date
Mar 17, 2008, 02:37 UTC
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On Sun, 16 Mar 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:
> 
> > We don't currently have any concept of an invalid refspec;
> 
> We don't? or just that parse_ref_spec() does not detect one?
> 
> > ... we just have 
> > things that fall back to not being patterns and not being possible to 
> > match (due to one or the other side being invalid as a ref name).
> 
> I am afraid that is an invitation for more bugs and confusions.

Yeah, we're definitely too lenient. t3200-branch has been using the refspec "=" since July without anybody noticing that it's wrong.

	-Daniel
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