Today I realized that git accepts "/" in a remote name.
This can lead to problems. I have a repository that contains a branch
called "master" and another called "chat/master". Just for fun, I
added a second remote in this repository and named it
"origin/chat".
Now, does "refs/remotes/origin/chat/master" refer to the branch
"chat/master" from "origin", or the branch "master" from
"origin/chat"? Git seems to think it refers to both:
> $ git fetch --all
> Fetching origin
> From $PRIVATE_URL
> + 4e31956300f...30e26ebbb19 chat/master -> origin/chat/master (forced update)
> Fetching origin/chat
> From $PRIVATE_URL
> + 30e26ebbb19...4e31956300f master -> origin/chat/master (forced update)
Every time I run "git fetch --all" git updates the origin/chat/master ref twice.
If it was up to me, I'd add a check to valid_remote_name() to ensure
the name doesn't contain any "/" character. I doubt it is used often.
/ceder
