From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jari Aalto Subject: [RFC] Branch naming -- allowed characters? Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 11:54:43 +0300 Organization: Private Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Aug 26 10:51:10 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IPDpt-0006Ut-NW for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 10:51:10 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750943AbXHZIun (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Aug 2007 04:50:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750840AbXHZIun (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Aug 2007 04:50:43 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:46220 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750795AbXHZIum (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Aug 2007 04:50:42 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IPDpL-0002Fm-L5 for git@vger.kernel.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 10:50:35 +0200 Received: from a81-197-175-198.elisa-laajakaista.fi ([81.197.175.198]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 10:50:35 +0200 Received: from jari.aalto by a81-197-175-198.elisa-laajakaista.fi with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 10:50:35 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: a81-197-175-198.elisa-laajakaista.fi User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:TRPh5TB1o3Fm4s+Q9CHY4JJDXHs= Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: I just noticed this while trying to track quilt project and making a local branch with name '.pc': 'fatal: '.pc' is not a valid branch name.' Would it be possible to allow using arbitrary names with branches in future git, even UTF-8? If that is not possible, would it be possible to at least broaden the charcter set with regular typeable US ascii letters, excluding the control ones. Something found in filenames/URLs. Like regexp: [][{}()_=+%!&@#~*.:;,/A-Za-z-] Jari [*] Emacs even saves with names like: *Messages*