From: Jonathan Nieder Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 20:49:20 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] push: document --lockref Message-ID: <20130714204920.GF8564@google.com> In-Reply-To: <20130714203403.GE8564@google.com> Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Johannes Sixt wrote: >> Sorry, IMO, this goes into a totally wrong direction, in particular, I >> think that this is going to close to door to make --lockref the default >> some day in a way that helps everyone. > > Would a '*' that acts like --lockref on a per ref basis address your > concerns? (Aside: '*' is not a great character for that. * is already taken in refspec syntax. There's no clash but the two uses would be confusing. *: *:* Some other single-character prefix could work, such as '.' or '~'.)