H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> I also expect that they interpret everything after the sha1 as refname, >> what with our having become quite liberal with refnames (they can contain >> spaces, tabs, and even a small amount of special K). So I don't see a way >> to upgrade the file format. > > They can also contain newlines, probably, so escaping is obligatory > anyway. No, refnames can not contain newlines. And .git/info/refs mimics git-ls-remote / git-peek-remote output, and is meant for dumb transports. -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git - 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