Re: [PATCH 05/29] refname_is_safe(): insist that the refname already be normalized

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On Wed, 2016-04-27 at 10:59 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> There is another call to refname_is_safe() in resolve_ref_unsafe(),
> which applies the sanity check to the string from a symref.  We seem
> to allow
> 
>     $ git symbolic-ref refs/heads/SSS refs/heads//master
> 
> and we end up storing "ref: refs/heads//master" (or make a symbolic
> link with doubled slashes), but the current code considers the
> resulting symbolic link as "dangling".  Again, this change moves the
> rejection a bit earlier in the codepath, without changing the end
> result, I'd think.

I think we should disallow that -- refname_is_safe should probably call
(or be replaced with calls to) check_refname_format.  
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