Re: [PATCH 0/3] object-name: don't allow @ as a branch name

[shejialuo <shejialuo@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Oct 07, 2024 at 10:15:16PM +0200, Kristoffer Haugsbakk wrote:

[snip]

>   §2 Disallow `HEAD` as a branch name
> 
> This was done later in 2017:
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/git/20171114114259.8937-1-kaartic.sivaraam@xxxxxxxxx/
> 
>   §2 `refs/heads/@` is apparently disallowed by git-refs(1)
> 
> See `t/t1508-at-combinations.sh`:
> 
> ```
> error: refs/heads/@: badRefName: invalid refname format
> ```
> 

It's true that using "git refs verify" will report "refs/heads/@" is a
bad refname.