Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Michael Schubert <mschub@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Currently, we allow refname components to start with a hyphen. There's >> no good reason to do so... > > That is way too weak as a justification to potentially break > existing repositories. > > Refusal upon attempted creation is probably OK, which is why the two > checks you removed in your patches are fine. Just to clarify, I meant that the existing checks were OK because they were meant to prevent creation. I didn't mean removal of them was OK. -- 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