From: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:06:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 01/10] Teach rebase interactive the mark command
Message-ID: <20080414100633.GB15098@alea.gnuu.de>
In-Reply-To: <20080414062425.GB20979@spearce.org>

Hi Shawn,

Shawn O. Pearce schrieb am Mon 14. Apr, 02:24 (-0400):
> Jrg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de> wrote:
> > Shawn O. Pearce schrieb am Sat 12. Apr, 23:56 (-0400):
> > > 
> > > Why not use the mark syntax that fast-import uses?
> > 
> > I didn't know it.
> > 
> > > In fast-import we use ":n" anytime we need to refer to a mark, e.g.
> > > ":1" or ":5".
> > 
> > Currently, I don't restrict the mark to be a number. It can anything that
> > is a valid ref. Should I restrict it?
> 
> In fast-import a mark can *only* be a number.

Only for the record: fast-import uses numbers and not strings of
digits, i.e. 001 == 1, and it ignores stuff following digits, i.e.
"12a" == 12 and "abc" == 0.

> > Except of this, I prefer to use the colon to be much closer to the syntax
> > of fast-import.
> 
> Me too, but it looks like in a human edited "TODO" script we may want
> to be more friendly and allow named marks.

I don't think so. There shouldn't be so much marks that a user can't
remember them.

Thanks for your comments.

Jörg.
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