From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:16:56 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Document and test the new % shotcut for the tracked branch
Message-ID: <20090320111656.GA8940@machine.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0903201128380.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

  Hi!

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:31:31AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> I had it ready yesterday!  But the real problem is not addressed by your 
> patch, either: '%<branch>' is a legal branch name.
> 
> I briefly considered <branch>^{tracked}, but
> 
> - the ^{} codepath does not try to substitute branch _names_, so we'd have 
>   to duplicate that ^{} detection, and,
> 
> - it is really cumbersome to write.

We already have @{N} to do one branch-based substitution, so what about
following this convention? Can't we have @{t}?

				Petr "Pasky" Baudis