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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 11:34:31 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vacf2p320.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.63.0512151244230.22400@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de

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

> +		/* do not allow "HEAD" as ref name */
> +		if (ch == 'H' && (!strcmp(cp, "EAD") ||
> +					!strncmp(cp, "EAD/", 4)))

Why forbid HEAD in the middle, like "refs/heads/HEAD/frotz"?
Confusion avoidance?

We might want to forbid anything that matches /^.*_?HEAD$/ to catch
ORIG_HEAD for example, though.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-12-15 19:34 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 [this message]
2005-12-15 22:41   ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-12-15 23:38     ` Junio C Hamano
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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