Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: netsync connection info cleanup

[Thomas Keller]

Am 28.04.2010 08:50, schrieb address@hidden:
> On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 12:36:59PM +0200, Thomas Moschny wrote:
>> Am Sun, 18 Apr 2010 20:49:37 +0200
>> schrieb Thomas Keller <address@hidden>:
>>
>>> Secondly, I'd actively deprecate any branch name which does not match
>>> the following regular expression, i.e. by throwing a warning when a
>>> branch cert which a different value is created:
>>>
>>>    ^([\w\d]+([-][\w\d]+)*)(\.[\w\d]+([-][\w\d]+)*)*$
>>
>> Sounds good to me, but maybe we have to ask our users, whether that'd
>> be ok for them. And we should still allow them to use other branch names
>> if they wish so (because technically, there's no need for such a
>> restriction).
>>
>> "mtn ls branches | grep -v -E '^(\w+(-\w+)*)(\.\w+(-\w+)*)*$'" shows only
>> one branch that doesn't match in my local copy of the monotone db
>> (prjek.net:tester).
> 
> And what would you do with that branch if this were to become a 
> restriction?

Well, we could still handle branches like this, but we'd enforce the
usage of url encoding, i.e. if a branch name looks like this

        -foo*,bar

we would be able to handle it when it is given so:

        %2Dfoo%2Cbar%2A

And to avoid that the user would have to encode that by hand, we'd make
the "compatibility" arguments and options BRANCH_PATTERN [--exclude=...]
to convert the given value to the internal, url-escaped version.

Thomas.

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