Re: ref-format checking regression

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

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I upgraded git on a machine recently, and it created problems for a repo
with a bogus character in a ref name.  Older versions of git never
complained about it. Newer ones, containing your dce4bab ("add_ref():
verify that the refname is formatted correctly") do. That's fine; it's
bogus and git _should_ complain about it.

However, recovering from the situation is unnecessarily hard, ...
...
I seem to recall discussing this format-tightening and trying to be sure
that users were left with a way forward for fixing their repos. But I
can't find the discussion, and I don't recall any conclusion we came to.

I haven't dug the archive but I do recall ...

A few...

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/185564
  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/184382/focus=185483