refs: consolidate remote name validation

In preparation for a future patch, extract from remote.c a function that
validates possible remote names so that its rules can be used
consistently in other places.

Helped-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Barag <sean@barag.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/refspec.h b/refspec.h
index 8d654e3a3a..ee93196e35 100644
--- a/refspec.h
+++ b/refspec.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ void refspec_appendn(struct refspec *rs, const char **refspecs, int nr);
 void refspec_clear(struct refspec *rs);
 
 int valid_fetch_refspec(const char *refspec);
+int valid_remote_name(const char *name);
 
 struct strvec;
 /*