* [PATCH] t1402: test forbidden characters in refnames
@ 2026-08-13 20:43 Nikolaus Schuetz via GitGitGadget
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From: Nikolaus Schuetz <nikolauspschuetz@gmail.com>
git-check-ref-format(1) documents that a refname cannot contain a
space, tilde, caret, colon, question-mark, asterisk or open-bracket,
and that it cannot be the single character "@". Of these, only "?"
was tested as a character embedded in an otherwise-valid refname;
"*" was checked only as a lone character or with --refspec-pattern.
Add the remaining forbidden characters in that embedded form, and
check that "@" alone is rejected even with --allow-onelevel -- where
"@" is otherwise a valid refname component, as "refs/@" confirms.
Signed-off-by: Nikolaus Schuetz <nikolauspschuetz@gmail.com>
---
t1402: test forbidden characters in refnames
git-check-ref-format(1) documents the characters that a refname may not
contain (space, tilde, caret, colon, question-mark, asterisk,
open-bracket) and the rule that it may not be the single character "@".
t1402 only exercised a few of these directly.
This adds the remaining forbidden characters in embedded form, and
checks that "@" alone is rejected even with --allow-onelevel, where "@"
is otherwise a valid refname component (as "refs/@" confirms).
Test-only; documents existing behaviour, in the spirit of 919eb8ace
(t1402: check for refs ending with a dot).
Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-2203%2Fnikolauspschuetz%2Fns%2Ft1402-forbidden-characters-v1
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-2203/nikolauspschuetz/ns/t1402-forbidden-characters-v1
Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/2203
t/t1402-check-ref-format.sh | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/t/t1402-check-ref-format.sh b/t/t1402-check-ref-format.sh
index cabc516ae9..bc1e878a0f 100755
--- a/t/t1402-check-ref-format.sh
+++ b/t/t1402-check-ref-format.sh
@@ -51,12 +51,20 @@ invalid_ref '.refs/foo'
invalid_ref 'refs/heads/foo.'
invalid_ref 'heads/foo..bar'
invalid_ref 'heads/foo?bar'
+invalid_ref 'heads/foo~bar'
+invalid_ref 'heads/foo^bar'
+invalid_ref 'heads/foo:bar'
+invalid_ref 'heads/foo*bar'
+invalid_ref 'heads/foo[bar'
+invalid_ref 'heads/foo bar'
valid_ref 'foo./bar'
invalid_ref 'heads/foo.lock'
invalid_ref 'heads///foo.lock'
invalid_ref 'foo.lock/bar'
invalid_ref 'foo.lock///bar'
valid_ref 'heads/foo@bar'
+valid_ref 'refs/@'
+invalid_ref '@' --allow-onelevel
invalid_ref 'heads/v@{ation'
invalid_ref 'heads/foo\bar'
invalid_ref "$(printf 'heads/foo\t')"
base-commit: 745601a9a94110d74769ab605ccd4f61339758d2
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