From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Cc: Per Cederqvist <ceder@lysator.liu.se>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Allowing "/" in the name of a git remote is a strange choice
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2025 07:18:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqecuwavk3.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aGdi6GRbI6Txm25Q@pks.im> (Patrick Steinhardt's message of "Fri, 4 Jul 2025 07:13:12 +0200")
Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> writes:
>> So it is not like we can just forbid '/' retroactively and expect no
>> repercussions, especially given that I hear there are more than a
>> few thousands of existing Git users in the world.
>
> We cannot just blanket-disallow this now, true. But shouldn't Git be
> able to detect this conflict, similar to how a user cannot have both
> refs/heads/branch and refs/heads/branch/nested?
Yup. Sorry but I should probably have not left it out, as that was
way too obvious an improved "solution", compared to "just forbid '/',
as I cannot imagine anybody using it".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-07-04 14:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-07-03 19:33 Allowing "/" in the name of a git remote is a strange choice Per Cederqvist
2025-07-04 4:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-07-04 5:13 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-07-04 8:10 ` Lidong Yan
2025-07-04 8:17 ` Lidong Yan
2025-07-04 14:18 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2025-07-04 6:42 ` Per Cederqvist
2025-07-05 16:57 ` Jeff King
2025-07-05 18:58 ` [PATCH] remote: detect collisions in remote names Jeff King
2025-07-07 9:14 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-07-07 20:28 ` Jeff King
2025-07-07 21:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-07-08 22:59 ` Jeff King
2025-07-08 23:02 ` Jeff King
2025-07-08 23:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-07-09 1:21 ` Jeff King
2025-07-07 13:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-07-09 11:56 ` Raymond E. Pasco
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