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7 <p>If you
’ve arrived at this page you may have already encountered the
8 dreaded
“<tt>contains bad characters
</tt>” or the
9 “<tt>Invalid project name
</tt>” or
10 “<tt>Invalid user name
</tt>” error message.
</p>
12 <p>Read on to see what
’s allowed in user names and project names.
</p>
14 <h3 id=
"project">Project Names
</h3>
16 <p>Project names (this includes fork names) must meet the following conditions:
</p>
19 <li>Project names must start with an alphanumeric character (the letters
20 <tt>A
</tt>-
<tt>Z
</tt>,
<tt>a
</tt>-
<tt>z
</tt> and the digits
<tt>0</tt>-
<tt>9</tt>).
</li>
22 <li>The following characters must be alphanumeric or one of
<tt>+
</tt>,
<tt>-
</tt>,
23 <tt>.
</tt> or
<tt>_
</tt>.
</li>
25 <li>The name must not end in
<tt>.
</tt>,
<tt>.git
</tt> or
<tt>.lock
</tt>.
</li>
27 <li>The name must not contain
<tt>..
</tt> anywhere.
</li>
29 <li>It must not be a reserved name (there are only a very few of these, most of them
30 a single letter, so if a project name meets the above rules but was not allowed
31 it
’s because it
’s a reserved name).
</li>
34 <h3 id=
"user">User Names
</h3>
36 <p>User names must meet the following conditions:
</p>
39 <li>User names must start with an alphanumeric character (the letters
40 <tt>A
</tt>-
<tt>Z
</tt>,
<tt>a
</tt>-
<tt>z
</tt> and the digits
<tt>0</tt>-
<tt>9</tt>).
</li>
42 <li>The following characters must be alphanumeric or one of
<tt>+
</tt>,
<tt>-
</tt>,
43 <tt>.
</tt> or
<tt>_
</tt>.
</li>
45 <li>It must not be a reserved name (there are only a very few of these, so if
46 a user name meets the above rules but was not allowed it
’s because
47 it
’s a reserved name).
</li>
