Function

GgitRefis_valid_name

Declaration [src] 

gboolean
ggit_ref_is_valid_name (
  const gchar* name
)

Description [src]

Check if the given name is a valid name for a reference. Note that name should be the full ref name (including prefixes).

Valid toplevel names can contain only capital letters and underscores and must start and end with a letter (e.g. HEAD, ORIG_HEAD).

Valid refs/ names may contain any characters, except ‘~’, ‘^’, ‘:’, ‘', ‘?’, ‘[‘, ‘*’, “..” and “@{“, because they are interpreted by revparse.

Parameters

name

Type: const gchar*

The name to validate.

The data is owned by the caller of the function.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

Return value

Type: gboolean

TRUE if name is valid, FALSE otherwise.