Re: [RFC] get_sha1() shorthands for blob/tree objects

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Apr 19, 2006, 00:47 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0604181745410.3701@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0604181735480.3701@g5.osdl.org>

On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> 
> And I thought we already disallowed ':' in branch names because cogito 
> uses them for the strange <rev>:<rev> syntax..

Btw, pathnames with ':' in them aren't a problem. It's only revision names that can't have ':' in them and still be used together with this syntax.

If you have a pathname with ':', it's fine to do

	git cat-file v1.2.4:pathname:with:colon

because the magic revision parsing only cares about the _first_ colon, and will split that into "v1.2.4" and "pathname:with:colon" without ever even looking at the other ones.

		Linus