Re: [PATCH] object name: introduce ':::<oneline prefix>' notation

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

Date

Feb 24, 2007, 01:49 UTC

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<Pine.LNX.4.63.0702240248210.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

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<20070224013015.GA9021@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Hi,

On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, Jeff King wrote:

> I think :/ is slightly easier on the eyes than :::. Plus it opens the 
> door for :? to find the oldest such match (though I'm not sure if it 
> would be by topology or date).

By topology makes no sense with more than one root.

> Of course it's starting to look a bit like line noise...maybe we just 
> need :-/ and :-).

That was also a suggestion in IRC :-)