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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks•im>
Cc: Phillip Wood via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail•com>,
	git@vger•kernel.org,  Han Jiang <jhcarl0814@gmail•com>,
	 Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm•org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] remote: check branch names
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2024 09:32:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqjzfg4yv1.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZuK80YvPSo8WUpp2@pks.im> (Patrick Steinhardt's message of "Thu, 12 Sep 2024 12:05:05 +0200")

Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks•im> writes:

> Agreed. It's also kind of curious that the function lives in
> "object-name.c" and not in "refs.c".

Because the helper groks things like "-" (aka "@{-1}"), it does a
bit more than "is this a reasonable name for a ref" and "please give
me the current value of this ref".  Also "refs/remotes/origin/HEAD"
may be valid as a refname, but forbidding "refs/heads/HEAD" is done
conceptually one level closer to the end-users.  Eventually, I think
it should move next to branch.c:validate_branchname() as a common
helper between "git branch" and "git remote" (possibly also with
"git switch/checkout", if they need to do validation themselves, but
I suspect they just call into branch.c at a bit higher "here is a
name, create it and you are free to complain---I do not care about
the details of why you decide the name is bad" interface).

Thanks.





  reply	other threads:[~2024-09-12 16:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-09-11 15:18 [PATCH 0/4] remote: branch setting fixes Phillip Wood via GitGitGadget
2024-09-11 15:18 ` [PATCH 1/4] remote: fix set-branches when no branches are set Phillip Wood via GitGitGadget
2024-09-11 20:45   ` Junio C Hamano
2024-09-12 10:04   ` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-09-11 15:18 ` [PATCH 2/4] remote: print an error if refspec cannot be removed Phillip Wood via GitGitGadget
2024-09-11 20:52   ` Junio C Hamano
2024-09-12 10:04     ` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-09-12 16:22       ` Junio C Hamano
2024-09-13  3:08         ` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-09-13 15:11     ` phillip.wood123
2024-09-13 17:38       ` Junio C Hamano
2024-09-11 15:18 ` [PATCH 3/4] remote add: use strvec to store tracking branches Phillip Wood via GitGitGadget
2024-09-11 17:05   ` Junio C Hamano
2024-09-12 10:05   ` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-09-11 15:18 ` [PATCH 4/4] remote: check branch names Phillip Wood via GitGitGadget
2024-09-11 17:03   ` Junio C Hamano
2024-09-12 10:05     ` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-09-12 16:32       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2024-09-13 15:09     ` phillip.wood123
2024-09-13 17:49       ` Junio C Hamano
2024-09-18 13:18         ` phillip.wood123
2024-09-18 20:24           ` Junio C Hamano

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