* About refs refs/heads/+...
@ 2014-12-21 10:58 Duy Nguyen
2014-12-21 18:40 ` Junio C Hamano
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Duy Nguyen @ 2014-12-21 10:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Git Mailing List
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. I wonder if we could do something
better:
- forbid "/+" in ref names (too strong?)
- some heuristics to detect "+:" and refuse it if ref "+" exists.
heuristics to hint the user about full ref name after we fail to match
refspec because we misinterpret "+"
- improve refspec matching code to detect ambiguation and force using
full ref name.
--
Duy
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* Re: About refs refs/heads/+...
2014-12-21 10:58 About refs refs/heads/+ Duy Nguyen
@ 2014-12-21 18:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-12-22 2:15 ` Duy Nguyen
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Junio C Hamano @ 2014-12-21 18:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Duy Nguyen; +Cc: Git Mailing List
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?
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