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[34.125.255.209]) by smtp.gmail.com with UTF8SMTPSA id d2e1a72fcca58-74ce417dd9asm2329106b3a.72.2025.07.04.07.18.36 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Fri, 04 Jul 2025 07:18:36 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Junio C Hamano From: Junio C Hamano To: Patrick Steinhardt Cc: Per Cederqvist , git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Allowing "/" in the name of a git remote is a strange choice In-Reply-To: (Patrick Steinhardt's message of "Fri, 4 Jul 2025 07:13:12 +0200") References: Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2025 07:18:36 -0700 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Patrick Steinhardt writes: >> So it is not like we can just forbid '/' retroactively and expect no >> repercussions, especially given that I hear there are more than a >> few thousands of existing Git users in the world. > > We cannot just blanket-disallow this now, true. But shouldn't Git be > able to detect this conflict, similar to how a user cannot have both > refs/heads/branch and refs/heads/branch/nested? Yup. Sorry but I should probably have not left it out, as that was way too obvious an improved "solution", compared to "just forbid '/', as I cannot imagine anybody using it".