Re: What's cooking in git.git (Nov 2017, #04; Tue, 14)

Kaartic Sivaraam [off-list ref] writes:

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* jc/branch-name-sanity (2017-10-14) 3 commits
 - branch: forbid refs/heads/HEAD
 - branch: split validate_new_branchname() into two
 - branch: streamline "attr_only" handling in validate_new_branchname()

 "git branch" and "git checkout -b" are now forbidden from creating
 a branch whose name is "HEAD".

 Reported to cause problems when renaming HEAD during a rebase.
 cf. [ref]

Just wanted to note this explicitly. As I'm not aware how the problem
with above series is going to be resolved, I've decided to stall the
v4 of my series that tries to improve error messages shown when
renaming the branch[1] until this problem gets resolved. I'm doing
this as this series and my series touch the same code
paths. Furthermore, I based my v3 off of 'next' when this series was
in there.

I'm not sure if the resolution to the problem might introduce
conflicts with my series. Hence the stall.

It is not like the original author of a series _owns_ the code; it
is open source after all.  So if you are inclined to, you are
welcome to fix it up or rewrite it, if somebody else's series that
is not actively being worked on needs updating before you can
continue your work.