From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 00:54:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow branch names that end with ".lock"
Message-ID: <20090508005417.GV30527@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <7viqkcbenb.fsf_-_@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> A project policy for naming branches could be to use a dot as a word
> separator (instead of '-' which is often done by existing projects), and
> "fix.vm.lock" could be a very valid name for a branch to address a VM
> locking issues.

I think we sent the same patch... except...
 
>  git-gui/lib/index.tcl                    |    2 +-

Don't do that.  I'll patch git-gui and send you a pull request.

-- 
Shawn.