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From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] Introduce %<branch> as shortcut to the tracked branch
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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...

Andreas