Re: [PATCH 2/3] Handle branch names with slashes

From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date: May 15, 2006, 10:58 UTC
Message-ID: <20060515105810.GA27077@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <b0943d9e0605150322w684785d5n9b17dccda6b29ac1@mail.gmail.com>

On 2006-05-15 11:22:08 +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:

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> There is one problem with killing "/" entirely (or maybe we could
> use other character than "#"). I tend to write quite often "stg diff
> -r /bottom" to see how the whole patch looks like before refreshing.
> With "#", the shell ignores "#bottom" as being a comment.
>
> Otherwise, I'm OK with changing "/" with something else or just
> keeping both (though I prefer to have a singe way of specifying it).
> It looks like ^ and ~ are already used by GIT. It leaves us with %
> and !. Do you have any preference? The exclamation mark looks OK to
> me.

Ah, right. Well, I would prefer %, since ! is used for some kind of shell history searching, but % is not touched by the shell, I think.

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