Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxxx> writes: >> "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. That's all nice and clean in theory, but it was more or less the same reasoning as what was behind the tightening not to allow anything but refs/heads pointed by HEAD, but you know what fell out of it. "Insane" and "crap" are in the eye of the beholder. -- 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
