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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Validate nicknames of remote branches to prohibit confusing ones
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:22:16 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vskztg8rr.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0802151412390.13593@iabervon.org> (Daniel Barkalow's message of "Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:14:18 -0500 (EST)")

Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:

> The original problem was that the parsers for configuration files were
> getting confused by seeing as nicknames remotes that involved
> directory-changing characters. In particular, the branches config file
> for ".." was particularly mystifying on platforms that can open
> directories and read odd data from them.
>
> The validation function was written by Junio Hamano (with a typo
> corrected).
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
> ---
> I was sort of expecting you to just put this in yourself, but since you 
> haven't, I wrote it up as an actual patch and fixed the polarity of the 
> test for slashes.

Thanks.  I am bogged down in day-job these days and have been
down-sick for the past 36 hours.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-15 22:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-15 19:14 [PATCH] Validate nicknames of remote branches to prohibit confusing ones Daniel Barkalow
2008-02-15 22:22 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-02-16  3:11   ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-02-16  8:08     ` Junio C Hamano

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