feast-dev
diff --git a/‎sdk/python/feast/repo_operations.py‎
Lines changed: 4 additions & 1 deletion b/‎sdk/python/feast/repo_operations.py‎
Lines changed: 4 additions & 1 deletion
@@ -507,7 +507,10 @@ def init_repo(repo_name: str, template: str):
 
 def is_valid_name(name: str) -> bool:
     """A name should be alphanumeric values, underscores, and hyphens but not start with an underscore"""
-    return not name.startswith(("_", "-")) and not name.startswith("-") and re.compile(r"[^\w-]+").search(name) is None
+    return (
+        not name.startswith(("_", "-"))
+        and re.compile(r"[^\w-]+").search(name) is None
+    )
 
 
 def generate_project_name() -> str: