On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 07:45:46PM +0900, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > So I think the right endgame in the longer term is:
> > ...
>
> Here is to illustrate what I mean in a patch form. It resurrects
> the gentle setup, and uses a purely textual format check when we are
> outside the repository, while bypassing the @{magic} interpolation
> codepath that requires us to be in a repository. When we are in a
> repository, we operate the same way as before.
I like the state this puts us in, but there's one catch: we're
completely changing the meaning of "check-ref-format --branch", aren't
we?
It is going from "this is how you resolve @{-1}" to "this is how you
check the validity of a potential branch name". Do we need to pick a
different name, and/or have a deprecation period?
-Peff
