git-check-ref-format: reject funny ref names.

Update check_ref_format() function to reject ref names that:

 * has a path component that begins with a ".", or
 * has a double dots "..", or
 * has ASCII control character, "~", "^", ":" or SP, anywhere, or
 * ends with a "/".

Use it in 'git-checkout -b', 'git-branch', and 'git-tag' to make sure
that newly created refs are well-formed.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/check-ref-format.c b/check-ref-format.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a0adb3dcb3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/check-ref-format.c
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+/*
+ * GIT - The information manager from hell
+ */
+
+#include "cache.h"
+#include "refs.h"
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+
+int main(int ac, char **av)
+{
+	if (ac != 2)
+		usage("git-check-ref-format refname");
+	if (check_ref_format(av[1]))
+		exit(1);
+	return 0;
+}