How do I check for valid Git branch names?

Question

I\'m developing a git post-receive hook in Python. Data is supplied on stdin with lines similar to

ef4d4037f8568e386629457d4d960915a85da2ae 61a4         


        

Answer 1

If You want to check if reference is valid with pygit2 You can do like that function (code copied from documentation):

from pygit2 import reference_is_valid_name
reference_is_valid_name("refs/heads/master")