From: Matthieu Moy Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 15:49:47 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 10/11] branch.c: use 'ref-filter' APIs Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Karthik Nayak writes: > On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 12:59 PM, Matthieu Moy > wrote: > >> IIRC, historicaly Git allowed some weirdly named refs which made some >> commands ambiguous (e.g. a branch named after an option like '-d'). >> We're forbidding their creation so people shouldn't have any, but we >> it's important to continue showing them in case some people have old >> bad-named branches lying around. [...] > Agreed. But then again the warning tells about the broken ref, as in it's name > So I think It's ok? > > for e.g. t1430 : > [trash directory.t1430-bad-ref-name] ../../git branch > warning: ignoring ref with broken name refs/heads/broken...ref > * master [ Late answer, I'm still catching up with my holiday's emails ;-) ] OK, the warning gives a different interface but it seems as good as the old one. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/