From a4c2e69936df8dd0b071b85664c6cc6a4870dd84 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Robin Rosenberg Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 07:32:37 +0200 Subject: Disallow '\' in ref names This is asking for trouble since '\' is a directory separator in Windows and thus may produce unpredictable results. Signed-off-by: Robin Rosenberg Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt b/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt index c1ce26884e..bf43454415 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt @@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ imposes the following rules on how references are named: . They cannot contain a sequence `@{`. +- They cannot contain a `\\`. + These rules make it easy for shell script based tools to parse reference names, pathname expansion by the shell when a reference name is used unquoted (by mistake), and also avoids ambiguities in certain -- cgit v1.2.1