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? > > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> fossil-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users >> >> > > > -- > D. Richard Hipp > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users > > -- Benoit Mortgat 20, avenue Marcel Paul 69200 Vénissieux, France +33 6 17 15 41 58 +33 4 27 11 61 23
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