Re: [RFC PATCH 3/5] branch: cleanup branch name validation

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 21, 2017, 01:37 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqd16kn86t.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <1d620d52-5326-269a-8710-160b75fada81@gmail.com>

Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com> writes:

> Thanks for giving a better alternative. Sounds catchy. How about
> `validate_branch_creation`?

I do not know what you meant by "catchy", but "git grep ok_to_" will tell you that ok-to-$do-something is quite an establish phrasing (if I thought it was a bad way to name it, I would have explicitly said so).

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