From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:34:26 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Introduce %<branch> as shortcut to the tracked branch
Message-ID: <7vr60ubgul.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0903182245280.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> Suggested by Pasky.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

In the longer term who suggested matters much less than why such a feature
is desirable, how it is used, and without it what is impossible and/or
cumbersome.  What's the motivation behind this?

You do not have to explain it to me, but you should explain it to the
history that records this commit, and to the users who read doccos.