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Re: New special handing of '@' character broke my use case

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 14, 2013, 18:20 UTC
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Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> writes:
> ...  But in that case, I'd like some assurance that such a character
> is not going to be turned into a magical character some time in the
> future ;-)

I'd say that any special letter could be considered a fair game by the next person who would want a funky short-cut. If you used "S" or something, e.g. "git branch S/ropic/1" etc., it would be very unlikely to conflict with any such future changes.

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