Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/7] check_ref_format(): tighten refname rules

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:03:42 -0700

"Shawn O. Pearce" <[email-masked]> writes:

> Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]> wrote:
>> This changes the rules for refnames to forbid:
>> 
>>  (1) a refname that contains "@{" in it.
>>  (2) a refname that ends with a dot.
>
> How about also "that end in .lock" ?

Yeah, people can add more as follow-up patches.  The primary purpose of
this series is to clean-up places that the new %name notation (or ~name or
whatever) needs to hook into.