Re: [PATCH 0/8] tightening ref handling outside of refs/

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Apr 29, 2024, 15:01 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq5xw01acv.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <20240429081512.GA4130242@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> This series teaches check_refname_format() to enforce these rules (when
> instructed; see patch 6 for a discussion of all sorts of complications).
>
> These changes are not backwards-compatible! But that is kind of the
> point. This is stuff that was never supposed to work. My concern would
> just be that somehow somebody is relying on it.

I would of course be worried about the same, but these all look like reasonable "I wish we did them in this way from the beginning" changes.