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

From: Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Date: Mar 21, 2009, 13:28 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0903211326390.20324@reaper.quantumfyre.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0903211323010.20272@reaper.quantumfyre.co.uk>

On Sat, 21 Mar 2009, Julian Phillips wrote:

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> On Sat, 21 Mar 2009, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
>
>>  On Saturday, 21 March 2009 0:08:42 Julian Phillips wrote:
>> >  How about adding a generic escape hatch, that would cover this and
>> >  future extensions?
>> > 
>> >  Let a ref that starts with a single quote be taken as given and not
>> >  processed.  You have to escape it to get it past the shell, but that 
>> >  makes
>> >  it rather unlikely that anyone has used a name that starts with a quote 
>> >  -
>> >  and if they have you can still use this mechanism to rename it.
>>
>>  To me the most obvious escape sequence would be \x for disabling whatever
>>  special meaning x has (for non-alphabetic x). With quoting you likely
>>  eventually end up needing  \' in some cases anyway...
>
> Except that \ is the escape character for the shell too ... and that can get 
> very confusing.  Haven't you ever spent too long trying to figure out how 
> many \s you needed to get the command to work properly?

Having said that, the actual character used doesn't really matter. That's just a what colour do you want your shed type detail ...

-- 
Julian

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