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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: About refs refs/heads/+...
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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?