From: Shawn O. Pearce Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:29:58 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2.1] Teach rebase interactive the mark command Message-ID: <20080414232958.GE20979@spearce.org> In-Reply-To: <1208169584-15931-1-git-send-email-joerg@alea.gnuu.de> Jrg Sommer wrote: > The format of the marks is as close as possible to the format of the > marks used by fast-export and fast-import, Yay. > i.e. :001 == :1 and > “:12a” == :12. It differs from the format of fast-import in that point > that it requires a digit after the colon, i.e. “:abc” != :0 and “:-12” > and “:+12” aren't allowed. Uh, that's a bug in fast-import. ":4abc" is _not_ a mark if you read the language specification. Only ":4" is a mark. So we are accepting crap and reading it in odd ways. Not good. -- Shawn.