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Revision 9231f500c394ede405fcfdca151dd7758ce99ced authored by Thomas Guyot-Sionnest on 22 April 2008, 10:07:47 UTC, committed by Junio C Hamano on 23 April 2008, 04:39:10 UTC 
git-svn bug with blank commits and author file
 
When trying to import from svn using an author file, git-svn bails out
if it encounters a blank author. The attached patch changes this
behavior and allow using the author file with blanks authors.

I came across this bug while importing from a cvs2svn repo where the
initial revision (1) has a blank author. This doesn't break the behavior
of bailing out when an unknown author is encountered.

Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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git-check-ref-format.txt 
git-check-ref-format(1)
=======================

NAME
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git-check-ref-format - Make sure ref name is well formed

SYNOPSIS
--------
'git-check-ref-format' <refname>

DESCRIPTION
-----------
Checks if a given 'refname' is acceptable, and exits non-zero if
it is not.

A reference is used in git to specify branches and tags.  A
branch head is stored under `$GIT_DIR/refs/heads` directory, and
a tag is stored under `$GIT_DIR/refs/tags` directory.  git
imposes the following rules on how refs are named:

. It can include slash `/` for hierarchical (directory)
  grouping, but no slash-separated component can begin with a
  dot `.`;

. It cannot have two consecutive dots `..` anywhere;

. It cannot have ASCII control character (i.e. bytes whose
  values are lower than \040, or \177 `DEL`), space, tilde `~`,
  caret `{caret}`, colon `:`, question-mark `?`, asterisk `*`,
  or open bracket `[` anywhere;

. It cannot end with a slash `/`.

These rules makes it easy for shell script based tools to parse
refnames, pathname expansion by the shell when a refname is used
unquoted (by mistake), and also avoids ambiguities in certain
refname expressions (see linkgit:git-rev-parse[1]).  Namely:

. double-dot `..` are often used as in `ref1..ref2`, and in some
  context this notation means `{caret}ref1 ref2` (i.e. not in
  ref1 and in ref2).

. tilde `~` and caret `{caret}` are used to introduce postfix
  'nth parent' and 'peel onion' operation.

. colon `:` is used as in `srcref:dstref` to mean "use srcref\'s
  value and store it in dstref" in fetch and push operations.
  It may also be used to select a specific object such as with
  linkgit:git-cat-file[1] "git-cat-file blob v1.3.3:refs.c".


GIT
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Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite
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