Re: [PATCH v2] Introduce %<branch> as shortcut to the tracked branch

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mar 18, 2009, 22:46 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0903182343580.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vr60ubgul.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > Suggested by Pasky.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
> 
> In the longer term who suggested matters much less than why such a 
> feature is desirable, how it is used, and without it what is impossible 
> and/or cumbersome.  What's the motivation behind this?
> 
> You do not have to explain it to me, but you should explain it to the 
> history that records this commit, and to the users who read doccos.

And that's not all... Documentation updates and tests for % and %<branch> are missing, too.

My main motivation to make this patch was to see how fast I could come up with something working that does not hurt my eyes.

But I do not have time to do more today: My main project as well as Git got accepted into the Google Summer of Code program, so I am even more swamped than usually.

So... if anybody feels like it, I would be very thankful for a proper commit message, documentation and tests...

Ciao, Dscho