I just noticed this while trying to track quilt project and making a local branch with name '.pc': 'fatal: '.pc' is not a valid branch name.' Would it be possible to allow using arbitrary names with branches in future git, even UTF-8? If that is not possible, would it be possible to at least broaden the charcter set with regular typeable US ascii letters, excluding the control ones. Something found in filenames/URLs. Like regexp: [][{}()_=+%!&@#~*.:;,/A-Za-z-] Jari [*] Emacs even saves with names like: *Messages* - 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