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

From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 20, 2009, 23:20 UTC
Message-ID: <fabb9a1e0903201620l456bfc39n2422dcb1e738eb37@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0903202300330.13726@reaper.quantumfyre.co.uk>

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)...

> Just be honest and say "You may have a branch whose name begins with a '%'
> and you cannot refer to it anymore in certain contexts.  Too bad.  Don't
> do it next time you create a new branch".  I _can_ buy that argument.

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier