Re: [PATCH v3] Introduce BEL<branch> as shortcut to the tracked branch

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date: Mar 20, 2009, 13:05 UTC
Message-ID: <vpqy6v0ny3i.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <200903201345.23864.agruen@suse.de>

Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> writes:

> For me this defeats the purpose; I can just as well type origin/branch (or 
> whatever it is) instead of branch^{origin}.  I'm really looking for something 
> very short like % or %branch.

I was thinking of ../branch (so, replace % with ../ in your patch, roughly). The cool thing is that my fingers are used to ../ already. The bad things are 1) not sure the "analogy" with .. in filesystem is good, and 2) this interacts badly with ref..branch. ref..%branch was cool, ref..../branch is less cool.

Or is //branch an idea?

My 2 cents,

-- 
Matthieu

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