On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 05:46:13AM -0500, Jeff King wrote: > This discussion stalled, but I finally got around to looking at it > today. I agree that we should leave aside more complex policy for now, > and start with bringing the "fetch" and "fetch-pack" filters into > harmony. That turns off format-checking for things outside "refs/" (so > allows "HEAD"), and checks the whole string for things inside "refs/" > (so it does not fall afoul of the one-level check). By the way, an interesting implication of this is that I do not think there is any format check on things outside of refs/. If you were to do git fetch ... +*:* you would write whatever crap the other side gives you. I can't imagine any reason a client would _ever_ do that, though, so I don't think it's a big deal. We tend to fetch HEAD explicitly by name, and that's it. -Peff -- 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