It gives a message like this: git update-ref --no-deref refs/git-r3/app-misc/ember-dev-environment/0/Ember satellite projects/__main__ 0081b8ad2a9ef0872cad934eabefa4734f75d443 fatal: update_ref failed for ref 'refs/git-r3/app-misc/ember-dev-environment/0/Ember satellite projects/__main__': refusing to update ref with bad name 'refs/git-r3/app-misc/ember-dev-environment/0/Ember satellite projects/__main__' While #572312 fixed some of these situations, there are other possible conditions that trigger this problem listed in https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=572312#c3. Those other problematic situations (spaces, ASCII control characters, etc.) in submodule names should be dealt with when choosing a reference name as well. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Try to emerge a package using git-r3 that includes such a submodule. 2. 3. Actual Results: It blows up with the above error message Expected Results: It unpacks successfully
commit eb4c42b20e78f3577ea26a028ff92393e2c4a2ff Author: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: Wed Jan 25 14:22:17 2017 Commit: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> CommitDate: Wed Jan 25 14:24:04 2017 git-r3.eclass: Escape all weird chars in submodule names, #606950 Please try now. I've just went full forward, and escaped all weird characters.
Brilliant, thanks :D
