Re: [PATCH] Allow branch names that end with ".lock"

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: May 8, 2009, 00:57 UTC
Message-ID: <7veiv0bee2.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090508005417.GV30527@spearce.org>

"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

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> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> A project policy for naming branches could be to use a dot as a word
>> separator (instead of '-' which is often done by existing projects), and
>> "fix.vm.lock" could be a very valid name for a branch to address a VM
>> locking issues.
>
> I think we sent the same patch... except...
>
>>  git-gui/lib/index.tcl                    |    2 +-
>
> Don't do that.  I'll patch git-gui and send you a pull request.

Why not? I never commit my "how about this" weatherbaloon patches directly ;-)

If you found that ours match identically except for that one line, that is a very good indication. I didn't check.