On 04/27/2016 10:14 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Michael Haggerty <[email protected]> writes: > >> If the user has asked that a new value be set for a reference, we use >> check_refname_format() to verify that the reference name satisfies all >> of the rules. But in other cases, at least check that refname_is_safe(). > > It isn't clear to me what "in other cases" exactly refers to. A > request to delete a ref would obviously one of those that do not > "ask that a new value be set", but are there other cases?
The other case is `verify`, which can be used to check the old value of a reference without modifying it. `verify` is exposed via `git update-ref --stdin` Michael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
