From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:08:32 GMT
Subject: Re: remote#branch
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710310304180.4362@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20071031014347.GB23274@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Hi,

On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Jeff King wrote:

> Anyway, to recap (my impression of) the discussion leading up to this:
>   - the cogito feature is useful
>   - the cogito syntax does not allow for multiple branches to be
>     specified

Here somebody else than me (IIRC Junio) proposed this syntax:

	git clone --track <name> [--track <name2>] <url>

Nobody was interested enough to implement it.

I then proposed delimiting with spaces, since they were _not part of a 
URL_:

	git clone "<url> <name> <name2>"

but some people insisted on "#", which I pointed out (several times!) is a 
no go, and I actually provided reasons for that.

>   - one such syntax proposed was git://foo.tld/bar.git#blue,red
>   - one problem with that syntax is that comma is a valid character
>     in the branch name, and '#' is a valid character in the repo name
>   - one proposed solution was that '#' and ',' when used as data should
>     be URL-encoded
>   - flamefest begin
> 
> So I think nobody disagrees that such a feature is useful; there is
> disagreement about the syntax.

Probably there is not enough need, too, and the discussion will peter out 
again, without anybody letting some code talk, and I will not make the 
mistake again of reviving this discussion.  Promise.

Ciao,
Dscho