From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón" <carenas@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
gitmailinglist.bentolor@xoxy.net, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Should `@` be really a valid git tag name?
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2021 16:06:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqr1dmg5uq.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YUUdjNDkL7Uy5erG@carlos-mbp.lan> ("Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón"'s message of "Fri, 17 Sep 2021 15:58:20 -0700")
Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com> writes:
> I was leaning towards something like that plus a Documentation update, but
> noticed that the current behaviour was inconsistent, and the confusion
> pointed out by Junio seems to indicate it is better if fully restricted.
That is a bad move, as existing repositories may have a ref with
such a name.
If we tighten anything retroactively, we probably should forgid '@'
short-hand that stands for HEAD, I would think.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-17 23:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-17 11:20 Should `@` be really a valid git tag name? gitmailinglist.bentolor
2021-09-17 18:20 ` Carlo Arenas
2021-09-17 20:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-09-17 21:47 ` Jeff King
2021-09-17 22:58 ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2021-09-17 23:06 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2021-09-18 0:21 ` Carlo Arenas
2021-09-18 0:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-09-18 4:53 ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2021-09-18 13:45 ` Chris Torek
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