Re: remote#branch

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Oct 31, 2007, 21:28 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0710311416450.3342@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0710311350100.3342@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> 
> If you don't like the fact that git doesn't quote, just don't use the 
> magic characters. It's that easy. And if somebody quotes the '/', just 
> tell him off for being an ass.

Side note - none of the repos I use are likely to actually have any quoting as an issue, so in that sense I don't actually care. I'd never notice if git did any quoting or not.

What I care about - and where I entered the discussion - is that the real impetus for this *stupid* quoting is not the actual need for quoting in itself (which doesn't seem to exist), but because people want to extend the repository naming to contain other things too, in particular the broken cogito single-branch naming thing.

So I could care less about some detail that I'll never even notice, if it wasn't for the fact that there's all this other baggage that goes with this whole thing. So the quoting itself is more of a symptom of the real problem.

Guess what? I didn't make the config file follow any Windows INI standards either. I'm just waiting for the first person to point out that you cannot parse a .gitconfig file with standard INI parsers.

			Linus