Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@xxxxxx> writes: >> I became aware of this issue while looking into problems occuring >> when a user created a branch starting with a '/' in git gui (e.g. >> "/foo"). Strange things happen, while git gui shows the current >> branch as "/foo" under the hood a branch "foo" (without the slash) >> had been created. But then you can't delete "/foo" from git gui, >> because a branch of that name doesn't exist. > > Perhaps an interface to give a cleaned-up version, e.g. > > $ git check-ref-format --print refs/heads//foo/bar > refs/heads/foo/bar > > is what you want in order to fix git-gui? I dunno. The following packages do exactly that. I tried to use it to fix git gui, but my Tcl-fu was not up to it, at least for tonight. It is not obvious to me that this interface is the one that would be most helpful for git gui: probably a command to just munge the branch name would be more convenient, though less general. Is the --print option useful? Right now, it seems that its main use is documentation. But in the future, it would be very nice if this command could be used to transform Unicode ref names to some appropriate normalization form, to make Unicode ref names usable in Mac OS X and less confusing everywhere. I look forward to your thoughts. Jonathan Nieder (4): Add tests for git check-ref-format Documentation: describe check-ref-format --branch in more detail check-ref-format: add option to print canonical name check-ref-format: Simplify --print implementation Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt | 32 ++++++++++++---- builtin-check-ref-format.c | 31 ++++++++++++++++ t/t1402-check-ref-format.sh | 61 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 116 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) create mode 100644 t/t1402-check-ref-format.sh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html