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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] We do not like "HEAD" as a new branch name
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 15:38:19 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v4q5alyms.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.63.0512152339530.4962@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> Okay, I think this is what *I* would want to be illegal:
>
> HEAD,
> ORIG_HEAD,
> FETCH_HEAD
> MERGE_HEAD
>
> Others? Or should I really test for just *anything* ending in _HEAD 
> besides HEAD itself?

Just to futureproof ourselves, how about this?

	/^(?:.*/)?(?:[A-Z0-9]+_)?HEAD$/

The last path component being "HEAD" or capital-or-digit
followed by underscore followed by "HEAD".

  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-15 23:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-15 11:46 [PATCH] We do not like "HEAD" as a new branch name Johannes Schindelin
2005-12-15 16:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-12-15 16:40   ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-12-15 17:00     ` Alex Riesen
2005-12-15 19:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-12-15 22:41   ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-12-15 23:38     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2005-12-16  1:40       ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-12-16  6:34         ` Junio C Hamano
2005-12-16 11:32           ` Johannes Schindelin

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