From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:37:53 GMT
Subject: Re: tracking repository
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0803162234270.19665@iabervon.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vlk4ichm4.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sun, 16 Mar 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> 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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