Re: Implementing branch attributes in git config

From: sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Date: May 8, 2006, 02:39 UTC
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On Sun, 07 May 2006 19:29:50 -0700 Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:

> Not at all.  Whatever Porcelain that runs repo-config to record
> the branch name needs to spell that branch name with proper
> quoting, like:

Okay. It just seems nuts to require quoting because you happen to use an uppercase character. People are used to quoting special characters like * and $, not uppercase letters.

> I _do_ want to keep my slashes intact and also dots; mangling
> them is not very nice to me X-<.

You're right.

We should just relax the config file rules for legal characters, in identifiers, at least [a-zA-Z0-9_/-].

Sean.