feast-dev
diff --git a/‎sdk/python/feast/repo_operations.py‎
Lines changed: 1 addition & 1 deletion b/‎sdk/python/feast/repo_operations.py‎
Lines changed: 1 addition & 1 deletion
diff --git a/‎sdk/python/tests/unit/infra/scaffolding/test_repo_config.py‎
Lines changed: 1 addition & 1 deletion b/‎sdk/python/tests/unit/infra/scaffolding/test_repo_config.py‎
Lines changed: 1 addition & 1 deletion
@@ -507,7 +507,7 @@ 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 re.compile(r"[^\w-]+").search(name) is None
+    return not name.startswith(("_", "-")) and not name.startswith("-") and re.compile(r"[^\w-]+").search(name) is None
 
 
 def generate_project_name() -> str:
 
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ def test_invalid_project_name():
     _test_config(
         dedent(
             """
-        project: foo-1
+        project: -foo
         registry: "registry.db"
         provider: local
         """