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From: Nicolas Bouilleaud <nicolas.bouilleaud@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 15:26:43 +0100
Subject: Support names starting with a digit or _ for projects and users
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This is what’s actually allowed when creating a user or a project in gitlab.
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 CHANGELOG              | 1 +
 lib/gitlab/markdown.rb | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index dae32953cd9..6bd93b8cd4b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ v 7.8.1
   - Fix urls for the issues when relative url was enabled
   - Add Bitbucket omniauth provider.
   - Add Bitbucket importer.
+  - Support referencing issues to a project whose name starts with a digit
 
 v 7.8.0
   - Fix access control and protection against XSS for note attachments and other uploads.
diff --git a/lib/gitlab/markdown.rb b/lib/gitlab/markdown.rb
index a1fd794aed2..d85c2ee4f2d 100644
--- a/lib/gitlab/markdown.rb
+++ b/lib/gitlab/markdown.rb
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ module Gitlab
       text
     end
 
-    NAME_STR = '[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_\-\.]*'
+    NAME_STR = '[a-zA-Z0-9_][a-zA-Z0-9_\-\.]*'
     PROJ_STR = "(?<project>#{NAME_STR}/#{NAME_STR})"
 
     REFERENCE_PATTERN = %r{
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