From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Rast Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (May 2013, #04; Wed, 15) Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 09:13:45 +0200 Message-ID: <87a9nobyae.fsf@linux-k42r.v.cablecom.net> References: <7vmwrvajye.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vk3mtwrq9.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Duy Nguyen , Git Mailing List , Michael Haggerty To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue May 21 09:13:55 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Uegle-0000C2-Sk for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 21 May 2013 09:13:55 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755561Ab3EUHNu (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 May 2013 03:13:50 -0400 Received: from edge20.ethz.ch ([82.130.99.26]:39325 "EHLO edge20.ethz.ch" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755480Ab3EUHNt (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 May 2013 03:13:49 -0400 Received: from CAS11.d.ethz.ch (172.31.38.211) by edge20.ethz.ch (82.130.99.26) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.2.298.4; Tue, 21 May 2013 09:13:42 +0200 Received: from linux-k42r.v.cablecom.net.ethz.ch (129.132.153.233) by CAS11.d.ethz.ch (172.31.38.211) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.2.298.4; Tue, 21 May 2013 09:13:45 +0200 In-Reply-To: <7vk3mtwrq9.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Mon, 20 May 2013 09:17:34 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) X-Originating-IP: [129.132.153.233] Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano writes: > In addition to your topic, it may be a good idea to notice this at > the Porcelain level (e.g. "checkout -b" and "branch", but not at the > "update-ref" level) and warn or even die if a Porcelain tries to > create a branch with such a name. But if we're going there and deprecating some ways of naming refs, please also disallow some other funny things in the same go. Michael suggested this earlier in some thread: the fewer ways we have of legally spelling refnames, the more syntax is available for revision syntax. -- Thomas Rast trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch