From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 04:33:28 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 5/5] fetch: reduce duplicate in ref update status lines with placeholder
Message-ID: <CAPig+cT=BAuAbEmS5G1v2yGNczA+-WvW0bBZz_hrLcYi0bpO4g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160626055810.26960-6-pclouds@gmail.com>

On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 1:58 AM, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
> In the "remote -> local" line, if either ref is a substring of the
> other, the common part in the other string is replaced with "$". For
> example
>
>     abc                -> origin/abc
>     refs/pull/123/head -> pull/123
>
> become
>
>     abc         -> origin/$
>     refs/$/head -> pull/123

Bikeshedding...

I think I recall in an earlier iteration that you asked for opinions
about '$', but don't recall if there were responses. Have you
considered '*' rather than '$'?

In my brain, at least, '$' is associated so strongly with regex that
"origin/$" is interpreted automatically as anchoring "origin/" at the
end of string, and "refs/$/head" just feels weird.

On the other hand, given the familiarity of shell globbing, "origin/*"
and "refs/*/head" feel quite natural and intuitive.

> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
> ---
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-fetch.txt b/Documentation/git-fetch.txt
> @@ -116,6 +116,11 @@ representing the status of a single ref. Each line is of the form:
> +In compact output mode, if either entire `<from>` or `<to>` is found
> +in the other string, it will be substituted with `$` in the other
> +string. or example, `master -> origin/master` becomes

s/or/For/

> +`master -> origin/$`.