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 <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt b/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt
index c1ce26884e73f1599602472ba5032988486cc465..bf434544158fee814a9647a11102b7e1b1165720 100644 (file)
--- 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

diff --git a/refs.c b/refs.c
index e65a3b4c4ef57863a1055108d2598777cabc2c8d..fc33bc6ac4b4abcffd814afcd6ee76d4cc73c28c 100644 (file)
--- a/refs.c
+++ b/refs.c
@@ -682,12 +682,13 @@ int for_each_rawref(each_ref_fn fn, void *cb_data)
  * - it has ASCII control character, "~", "^", ":" or SP, anywhere, or
  * - it ends with a "/".
  * - it ends with ".lock"
+ * - it contains a "\" (backslash)
  */
 
 static inline int bad_ref_char(int ch)
 {
        if (((unsigned) ch) <= ' ' ||
-           ch == '~' || ch == '^' || ch == ':')
+           ch == '~' || ch == '^' || ch == ':' || ch == '\\')
                return 1;
        /* 2.13 Pattern Matching Notation */
        if (ch == '?' || ch == '[') /* Unsupported */