Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 25/44] refs.h: document make refname_is_safe and add it to header

From: Michael Haggerty <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 11:18:27 +0200

On 10/13/2015 09:33 AM, Michael Haggerty wrote:
> On 10/12/2015 11:51 PM, David Turner wrote:
>> This function might be used by other refs backends
>>
>> Signed-off-by: David Turner <[email-masked]>
>> ---
>>  refs.h | 11 +++++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/refs.h b/refs.h
>> index fc8a748..7a936e2 100644
>> --- a/refs.h
>> +++ b/refs.h
>> @@ -348,6 +348,17 @@ int verify_refname_available(const char *newname, struct string_list *extra,
>>  			     struct string_list *skip, struct strbuf *err);
>>  
>>  /*
>> + * Check if a refname is safe.
>> + * For refs that start with "refs/" we consider it safe as long they do
>> + * not try to resolve to outside of refs/.
>> + *
>> + * For all other refs we only consider them safe iff they only contain
>> + * upper case characters and '_' (like "HEAD" AND "MERGE_HEAD", and not like
>> + * "config").
>> + */
>> +int refname_is_safe(const char *refname);
>> +
>> +/*
>>   * Flags controlling ref_transaction_update(), ref_transaction_create(), etc.
>>   * REF_NODEREF: act on the ref directly, instead of dereferencing
>>   *              symbolic references.
>>
> 
> The previous commit deleted this comment from where it previously
> appeared in refs-be-files.c. It would make more sense to squash this
> commit onto that one so it's clear that you are moving the comment
> rather than creating a new comment out of thin air.

Also, after this commit the prototype for this function appears twice in
refs.h.

Michael

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Michael Haggerty
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