From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 18:40:28 GMT
Subject: Re: About refs refs/heads/+...
Message-ID: <xmqqy4q0c0df.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8B8wVKAoqaKJxuyWbyDbFEofwctyfQoU=A0S_yUMc8bgA@mail.gmail.com>

Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> I accidentally created a branch whose name starts with  "+".
> Everything went ok until I pushed it  because "+" is interpreted as
> forced refspec (e.g. "git push somewhere +wip"). Using full ref names
> would avoid ambiguity. The corner case of this is where the branch
> name is simply "+". Then refspec "+:" will be interpreted completely
> different from what the user wants.

Using full ref names does not avoid ambiguity in that case?  What
is a push refspec with an empty right-hand-side supposed to do in
the first place anyway?