Re: [PATCH v4] Introduce %<branch> as shortcut to the tracked branch

From: Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Date: Mar 20, 2009, 23:41 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0903202324170.13726@reaper.quantumfyre.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <fabb9a1e0903201620l456bfc39n2422dcb1e738eb37@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, 21 Mar 2009, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:

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> Heya,
>
> On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 00:08, Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk> wrote:
>>  git branch -m "'%master" percent-master
>
> Which kinda defeats the purpose of having a short-and-easy-to-write
> refname, no? "'%master" is not that easy to type, I at least get my
> fingers mixed up in the "'% sequence. Perhaps we should reserve these
> special characters now, and deprecate their use? Junio seemed to be
> open to that (quoted below)...

But it's not supposed to be easy to type ...

To use the new syntax you type %master only. What I was proposing was a way to get at the branch that you had before the wizzy new feature was added. Something you only do once to rename it - why waste an easy to type sequence on that?

I agree that adding some more reserved characters is a reasonable way forward - but I think a way should be provided for people who are _already_ using those characters to rename their branches to something that avoids those characters in a simple (but not necessarily easy to type) way.

-- 
Julian

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