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| author |  Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2005-12-15 18:03:59 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2005-12-16 18:23:52 -0800 |
| commit | 68283999f8ae0e9286f8b7f199905b77d608cb80 (patch) | |
| tree | 191914d18206d0b668db19685e27343ba6f599e6 /Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt | |
| parent | Examples of resetting. (diff) | |
| download | tgif-68283999f8ae0e9286f8b7f199905b77d608cb80.tar.xz | |
Forbid pattern maching characters in refnames.
by marking '?', '*', and '[' as bad_ref_char().
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt b/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt index 636e9516b0..f7f84c644e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt @@ -26,13 +26,15 @@ imposes the following rules on how refs are named: . It cannot have ASCII control character (i.e. bytes whose values are lower than \040, or \177 `DEL`), space, tilde `~`, - caret `{caret}`, or colon `:` anywhere; + caret `{caret}`, colon `:`, question-mark `?`, asterisk `*`, + or open bracket `[` anywhere; . It cannot end with a slash `/`. These rules makes it easy for shell script based tools to parse -refnames, and also avoids ambiguities in certain refname -expressions (see gitlink:git-rev-parse[1]). Namely: +refnames, pathname expansion by the shell when a refname is used +unquoted (by mistake), and also avoids ambiguities in certain +refname expressions (see gitlink:git-rev-parse[1]). Namely: . double-dot `..` are often used as in `ref1..ref2`, and in some context this notation means `{caret}ref1 ref2` (i.e. not in |