On Sat, 18 Nov 2006, Petr Baudis wrote:
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> Some of the ref manipulation tools (git-for-each-ref and git-show-ref in
> particular) would not handle hidden (~ /^\./) refs. This may be an
> acceptable or possibly even desirable behaviour for the ref walkers and
> repackers, but git-show-ref hiddenrefname must work.

No.

Refnames MUST NOT start with a ".". 

It's not even about the traditional unix "hidden file" thing. It's simply 
a syntactic issue. A ref cannot start with a ".", because we use things 
like ".." and "..." to separate them.

For the same reason, a ref must not contain - anywhere in its name - a "^" 
or a ".." or the other magic characters.

If you want to hide refs, you should do so some other way.

		Linus
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