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Invalidate username starting with ?. Fix #7205.

Ramya Authappan requested to merge github/fork/cirosantilli/username-question into master

Created by: cirosantilli

Fix #7205

This fixes the issue minimally, but what I would really like to do is:

/\A(?!(\.git|\.|\.\.)\z)[.]?[a-zA-Z0-9_][a-zA-Z0-9_.-]*\z/

Which would also allow:

  • usernames that end in .git, except .git exactly. Denying extension feels like an unnecessary restriction.
  • ., - and _ to be used anywhere, execpt for . and .. exactly. The validation would be simpler for humans to understand, and ugly usernames are already possible like ._ so it does not matter much.

I wish we had used:

/\A[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9-]*\z/

from day one like GitHub, but now would be data destructive =(

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