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From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] retain reflogs for deleted refs
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 18:32:38 +0200
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Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, git@vger.kernel.org,
	Alexey Muranov <alexey.muranov@gmail.com>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
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Am 20.07.2012 11:49, schrieb Michael Haggerty:
> Other possibilities (according to git-check-ref-format(1)):
> 
>     refs/.heads/.a/.b/c
>     refs/heads./a./b./c (problematic on some Windows filesystems?)

Yes. Probably all filesystems.

>     refs/heads../a../b../c

Same here.

>     refs/heads~dir/a~dir/b~dir/c (or some other suffix)
>     refs/heads..a..b..c (not recommended because it flattens directory
> hierarchy)

-- Hannes