Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I really think we cannot afford piling hacks on top of hacks to hide the > broken interface forever. We have two different things to validate, and > the callers all know what they have when calling us to validate. We > should not have a single loose validation that only catches "it cannot be > either fetch nor push refspec" breakage. > ... > But at least I think something like this patch would lead us in the right > direction. On top of the one I sent out, with this patch, you can: $ git push other ':/remote show:refs/heads/new' to send the commit you would review with "git show ':/remote show'". --- builtin-send-pack.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin-send-pack.c b/builtin-send-pack.c index 930e0fb..bb9c33a 100644 --- a/builtin-send-pack.c +++ b/builtin-send-pack.c @@ -537,7 +537,7 @@ static void verify_remote_names(int nr_heads, const char **heads) int i; for (i = 0; i < nr_heads; i++) { - const char *remote = strchr(heads[i], ':'); + const char *remote = strrchr(heads[i], ':'); remote = remote ? (remote + 1) : heads[i]; switch (check_ref_format(remote)) { -- 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