From: Karl Hasselström Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 10:58:10 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] Handle branch names with slashes Message-ID: <20060515105810.GA27077@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk> In-Reply-To: On 2006-05-15 11:22:08 +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote: > 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. -- Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com www.treskal.com/kalle