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| author | Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com> | 2009-05-08 09:32:37 +0400 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2009-05-09 12:35:49 +0400 |
| commit | a4c2e69936df8dd0b071b85664c6cc6a4870dd84 (patch) | |
| tree | 45483a8bdac09aa9d018908ae21dca603aa9e890 /Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt | |
| parent | f01f1099f40f24fe6f7802185340a6fa3a3d4f35 (diff) | |
Disallow '\' in ref names
This is asking for trouble since '\' is a directory separator in
Windows and thus may produce unpredictable results.
Signed-off-by: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt b/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt index c1ce26884e..bf43454415 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt @@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ imposes the following rules on how references are named: . They cannot contain a sequence `@{`. +- They cannot contain a `\\`. + These rules make it easy for shell script based tools to parse reference names, pathname expansion by the shell when a reference name is used unquoted (by mistake), and also avoids ambiguities in certain |