How do I stop Github changing my project name?

Question

I'm trying to create a new repository in Github, and I'm having trouble with it's name. It's a C++ project, so I'd like to call it:

superproject++

However Github creates me a repo with a url of:

git://github.com/alanw/superproject--.git

which looks pretty bad.

Is this a constraint of Github or git itself?

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I've played around with a few alternatives, but I'm not to keen on:

• superprojectcpp
• superprojectpp
• superproject_cpp
• superprojectplusplus

Any ideas?

Answer 1

The "plus" character often holds special meaning in URLs, and can't be used unencoded. For instance, spaces are sometimes encoded with a '+', rather than the more unfriendly '%20'. Assuming that git is doing this, you'll have to pick something else. Sorry.

(superprojectplusplus isn't so bad)