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authorRobin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>2009-05-08 05:32:37 (GMT)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2009-05-09 08:35:49 (GMT)
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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>
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@@ -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