Re: [PATCH v3] Introduce BEL<branch> as shortcut to the tracked branch

From: Santi Béjar <santi@agolina.net>
Date: Mar 20, 2009, 12:33 UTC
Message-ID: <adf1fd3d0903200533s2be08ee7t58a22180b1c886c0@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0903201053280.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

2009/3/20 Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>:

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> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Wincent Colaiuta wrote:
>
>> El 20/3/2009, a las 10:29, Johannes Schindelin escribió:
>>
>> >
>> >Often, it is quite interesting to inspect the branch tracked by a given
>> >branch.  This patch introduces a nice notation to get at the tracked
>> >branch: 'BEL<branch>' can be used to access that tracked branch.
>> >
>> >A special shortcut 'BEL' refers to the branch tracked by the current branch.
>> >
>> >Suggested by Pasky and Shawn.
>>
>> What does BEL actually stand for? I read Shawn's suggestion, but it's not
>> immediately clear to me what "BEL" means.
>
> It is the ASCII "bell" character, 007 (I always wanted to write that
> magic identifier into a patch).
>
> FWIW you could type it in a regular ANSI terminal using Control-v
> Control-g.

Can we use branch^{origin} instead? It is longer to type, but uses the same syntax as the ^{tree}, ^{commit}, ^{tag} and you don't have to know how to produce the bell character.

2 cents, Santi