Probably disallowing any character below or equal to 0x19 would be a good
idea.

But let us suppose that some fossil user has a repository with such a tag.
Won't that break when trying to do a fossil update or fossil checkout?

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 14:57, Richard Hipp <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 8:39 AM, David Bovill <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> What are the permitted characters for a tag name? Are spaces or
>> international characters allowed?
>>
>
> I think all characters (other than 0x00) are allowed in tag names.  Try it
> out.  If you run into problems, let me know and I'll fix them.
>
> In the Fossil self-hosting repository on the
> http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/brlist page you'll see two branches named
> "StvPrivateHook2".  There are two shown because one of them has a space at
> the end of its name and so they really are two separate branches.  :-(
>  Perhaps I should add a restriction somewhere that disallows whitespace at
> the beginning or at the end of the tag name.  Maybe, too, I should disallow
> CR and NL in tag names.  What do you think?
>
>
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