From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Carlo Arenas <carenas@gmail.com>
Cc: gitmailinglist.bentolor@xoxy.net, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Should `@` be really a valid git tag name?
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2021 13:53:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq4kaihqjj.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPUEspjbiNtffXatzNUUFYyZKRjcqetOTVqQX+MgZf_AJq9hnA@mail.gmail.com> (Carlo Arenas's message of "Fri, 17 Sep 2021 11:20:14 -0700")
Carlo Arenas <carenas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 7:12 AM <gitmailinglist.bentolor@xoxy.net> wrote:
>>
>> A SO commenter pointed out, that git-check-ref-format forbids @ and
>> maybe I should report this as a potential bug. Is it?
>
> a reference that is named "@" only is invalid, but refs/tags/@ is not.
;-)
"git check-ref-format master ; echo $?" would show that any single
level name is "forbidden", so probably the SO commenter (whatever
that is) was confused---it is not about @ at all.
In any case, a tag whose name is @ may be another source of
confusion in the modern world, after we added @ as a synonym to
HEAD. I do not know, for example, offhand which between the HEAD or
that tag "git show @" would choose. It makes sense to avoid it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-17 20:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-17 11:20 Should `@` be really a valid git tag name? gitmailinglist.bentolor
2021-09-17 18:20 ` Carlo Arenas
2021-09-17 20:53 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2021-09-17 21:47 ` Jeff King
2021-09-17 22:58 ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2021-09-17 23:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-09-18 0:21 ` Carlo Arenas
2021-09-18 0:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-09-18 4:53 ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2021-09-18 13:45 ` Chris Torek
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