From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:23:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Introduce %<branch> as shortcut to the tracked branch
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0903200121330.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0903182343580.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

Hi,

On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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

Darn, darn, DARN!

Just when I squeezed that half an hour from the time I have to sleep, to 
provide documentation and tests, _just_ after I finished that, I got the 
idea that '%' might not be a 'bad ref char' after all.

And of course I was correct.

Just try this:

	$ git checkout -b %helloworld

and weep... so, no v3 of that patch, even if I have it right here.

Ciao,
Dscho "who goes to bed being frustrated"