From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 18:20:59 GMT
Subject: Re: New special handing of '@' character broke my use case
Message-ID: <7v8v04t9pw.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <520BC017.7050907@gmail.com>

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.