From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 00:57:09 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow branch names that end with ".lock" Message-ID: <7veiv0bee2.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20090508005417.GV30527@spearce.org> "Shawn O. Pearce" writes: > Junio C Hamano 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.