Disallow '\' in ref names

[git.git] / refs.c

diff --git a/refs.c b/refs.c
index e65a3b4c4ef57863a1055108d2598777cabc2c8d..fc33bc6ac4b4abcffd814afcd6ee76d4cc73c28c 100644 (file)
--- a/refs.c
+++ b/refs.c
@@ -682,12 +682,13 @@ int for_each_rawref(each_ref_fn fn, void *cb_data)
  * - it has ASCII control character, "~", "^", ":" or SP, anywhere, or
  * - it ends with a "/".
  * - it ends with ".lock"
+ * - it contains a "\" (backslash)
  */
 
 static inline int bad_ref_char(int ch)
 {
        if (((unsigned) ch) <= ' ' ||
-           ch == '~' || ch == '^' || ch == ':')
+           ch == '~' || ch == '^' || ch == ':' || ch == '\\')
                return 1;
        /* 2.13 Pattern Matching Notation */
        if (ch == '?' || ch == '[') /* Unsupported */