From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 00:47:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] get_sha1() shorthands for blob/tree objects
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