Re: ref name troubles, was Re: [PATCH v2] Introduce %<branch> as shortcut to the tracked branch

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Hi!

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 10:30:29AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> > I think you are right.  It is just "git branch" and perhaps "git
> > update-ref" are too loose in enforcing what can be created.
> 
> "git branch" I agree with, but not "git update-ref".  As plumbing, the 
> latter should be much more allowing, feeding rope aplenty (but also 
> allowing cool tricks we do not think about yet).

We shouldn't allow creating insane ref names even with update-ref. That
way porcelains cannot rely on update-ref to sanity check the user's
crap. At most, maybe you might want to bypass this check with some force
switch, though I really can't quite imagine why.

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