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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | refs.c | 3 |
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 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 @@ -682,12 +682,13 @@ int for_each_rawref(each_ref_fn fn, void *cb_data) * - it has ASCII control character, "~", "^", ":" or SP, anywhere, or * - it ends with a "/". * - it ends with ".lock" + * - it contains a "\" (backslash) */ static inline int bad_ref_char(int ch) { if (((unsigned) ch) <= ' ' || - ch == '~' || ch == '^' || ch == ':') + ch == '~' || ch == '^' || ch == ':' || ch == '\\') return 1; /* 2.13 Pattern Matching Notation */ if (ch == '?' || ch == '[') /* Unsupported */ |