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From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Introduce BEL<branch> as shortcut to the tracked  branch
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:45:23 +0100
Organization: SUSE Labs / Novell
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Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
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To: Santi =?iso-8859-1?q?B=E9jar?= <santi@agolina.net>
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On Friday, 20 March 2009 13:33:18 Santi B=E9jar wrote:
> Can we use branch^{origin} instead? It is longer to type, but uses th=
e
> same syntax as the ^{tree}, ^{commit}, ^{tag} and you don't have to
> know how to produce the bell character.

=46or me this defeats the purpose; I can just as well type origin/branc=
h (or=20
whatever it is) instead of branch^{origin}.  I'm really looking for som=
ething=20
very short like % or %branch.

A notation for referring to the tracked branch in arbitrary contexts st=
ill=20
sounds like a good idea, and for that purpose, your proposal sounds use=
ful.

Thanks,
Andreas