From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:02:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Add --track option to git clone
Message-ID: <7v1vjd9dz4.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20091202223728.GB9691@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

>>   git clone -f maint,master,next,pu git.git
>
> Yeah, that is much nicer. I think "," is allowed in ref names, but I
> am tempted not to care here. It is not as if this is a low-level
> feature, and most people will not be crazy enough to use commas in their
> branch-names. IOW, you will get into trouble only if you have crazy
> names _and_ you want to use this particular feature. If we wanted to be
> complete, we could provide a quoting mechanism, but that is perhaps
> excessive.

Yeah, I agree it is Ok not to support crazy people in this case.  Not
supporting from the very beginning is quite different from _breaking_ them
;-)