Can you have gitolite repositories with spaces in the names?

Question

I want to have a SparkleShare repository that has spaces in the names, but it seems that gitolite doesn't like my config file to have spaces in the names.

Answer 1

Gitolite (v2 or v3) doesn't seem to support repo names with spaces in it.

If you look at Store.pm:

# normal repos
my @repos = grep { $_ =~ $REPONAME_PATT and not /^@/ } sort keys %repos;

With Rc.pm

$REPONAME_PATT = qr(^\@?[0-9a-zA-Z][0-9a-zA-Z._\@/+-]*$);

So no space in that pattern, when adding or removing repos in Gitolite.