Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> I upgraded git on a machine recently, and it created problems for a repo
>> with a bogus character in a ref name. Older versions of git never
>> complained about it. Newer ones, containing your dce4bab ("add_ref():
>> verify that the refname is formatted correctly") do. That's fine; it's
>> bogus and git _should_ complain about it.
>>
>> However, recovering from the situation is unnecessarily hard, ...
>> ...
>> I seem to recall discussing this format-tightening and trying to be sure
>> that users were left with a way forward for fixing their repos. But I
>> can't find the discussion, and I don't recall any conclusion we came to.
>
> I haven't dug the archive but I do recall ...
A few...
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/185564
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/184382/focus=185483
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