From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2009 09:06:49 GMT
Subject: Re: tracking branch for a rebase
Message-ID: <4AA4CD29.4040805@drmicha.warpmail.net>
In-Reply-To: <20090907084455.GC17997@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King venit, vidit, dixit 07.09.2009 10:44:
> On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 01:25:38AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
>>> @{^}
>> 
>> This _could_ work, although it is rather cryptic.
> 
> But an identifier composed entirely of punctuation? It might help
> git catch on with perl programmers. ;)

Right, that was the true agenda hidden only partially behind the plain
association between ^ and up ;)

Michael (having exactly zero perl fu)

P.S.: @ may not be reserved, and neither @^, but 1.7 should allow us to
reserve some symbols/combinations with a "low damage probability".
People may have a@b refnames (git-svn users for sure), but @^?