Re: ref-format checking regression

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>
>> I upgraded git on a machine recently, and it created problems for a repo
>> with a bogus character in a ref name.  Older versions of git never
>> complained about it. Newer ones, containing your dce4bab ("add_ref():
>> verify that the refname is formatted correctly") do. That's fine; it's
>> bogus and git _should_ complain about it.
>> 
>> However, recovering from the situation is unnecessarily hard, ...
>> ...
>> I seem to recall discussing this format-tightening and trying to be sure
>> that users were left with a way forward for fixing their repos. But I
>> can't find the discussion, and I don't recall any conclusion we came to.
>
> I haven't dug the archive but I do recall ...