From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 17:46:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Hidden refs
Message-ID: <20101013174647.GB13752@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vvd56m1ke.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 10:42:41AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > Yeah, I believe "." at the front of a directory component is explicitly
> > forbidden by check_ref_format. I don't recall whether there was a
> > specific rationale, or whether it was simply a can of worms we didn't
> > want to explore.
> 
> Is "log foo...bar" a symmetric difference between foo and bar, or is it an
> assymmetric one from foo and .bar?

Thanks, I was sure there was a simple example of how it would make
things ambiguous, but for some reason I couldn't think of one.

-Peff