From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:35:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] Introduce %<branch> as shortcut to the tracked branch
Message-ID: <200903210135.33729.agruen@suse.de>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0903202300330.13726@reaper.quantumfyre.co.uk>

On Saturday, 21 March 2009 0:08:42 Julian Phillips wrote:
> How about adding a generic escape hatch, that would cover this and
> future extensions?
>
> Let a ref that starts with a single quote be taken as given and not
> processed.  You have to escape it to get it past the shell, but that makes
> it rather unlikely that anyone has used a name that starts with a quote -
> and if they have you can still use this mechanism to rename it.

To me the most obvious escape sequence would be \x for disabling whatever 
special meaning x has (for non-alphabetic x). With quoting you likely 
eventually end up needing  \' in some cases anyway...

Andreas