Re: [PATCH 1/2] refs: disallow ref components starting with hyphen

On 07/16/2012 02:13 PM, Michael Schubert wrote:

Currently, we allow refname components to start with a hyphen. There's
no good reason to do so and it troubles the parseopt infrastructure.
Explicitly refuse refname components starting with a hyphen inside
check_refname_component().

Your change to refs.c looks correct.  However, you should also update 
the documentation of the refname rules at the top of refs.c and also in

     Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt

Michael

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