From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Hidden refs
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 10:51:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vmxqim167.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101013174647.GB13752@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Wed\, 13 Oct 2010 13\:46\:48 -0400")
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 10:42:41AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>>
>> > Yeah, I believe "." at the front of a directory component is explicitly
>> > forbidden by check_ref_format. I don't recall whether there was a
>> > specific rationale, or whether it was simply a can of worms we didn't
>> > want to explore.
>>
>> Is "log foo...bar" a symmetric difference between foo and bar, or is it an
>> assymmetric one from foo and .bar?
>
> Thanks, I was sure there was a simple example of how it would make
> things ambiguous, but for some reason I couldn't think of one.
Of course, it points at an existing bug as well. --- the example could
mean an asymmetric difference from foo. to bar ;-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-13 17:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-13 15:22 [RFC] Hidden refs Marc Branchaud
2010-10-13 15:32 ` Stephen Bash
2010-10-13 16:14 ` Marc Branchaud
2010-10-13 17:35 ` Jeff King
2010-10-13 17:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-10-13 17:46 ` Jeff King
2010-10-13 17:51 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2010-10-13 17:53 ` Jonathan Nieder
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