From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:54:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Introduce BEL<branch> as shortcut to the tracked branch
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0903201053280.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <3F6729A7-76FA-43F4-9538-D644B30576D7@wincent.com>

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.

Ciao,
Dscho