From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>,
Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>, Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>,
B.Steinbrink@gmx.de, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] Introduce %<branch> as shortcut to the tracked branch
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:36:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090320193650.GA26934@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vwsakgjie.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:02:33AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> A naïve question.
>
> Has nobody suggested to use a really illegal characters such as ':'
> instead? After all, we are not talking something that you can use in
> refspecs but another way to spell branch names.
But if this goes into dwim_ref, then won't it be usable for refspecs? Or
even if it isn't, then imagine the user who doesn't know this and types
git push :foo
unwittingly deleting the remote "foo".
Yes, that is unlikely (since why would they push the tracking branch of
foo?), but I don't think it makes sense to argue that it doesn't have
confusing (and potentially dangerous) consequenses.
> Alternatively, '~master' may have a nice connotation that means "where
> master calls its home".
I think that is quite clever and doesn't have any meaning for a revision
specifier already. I like it.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-20 19:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200903181448.50706.agruen@suse.de>
2009-03-18 18:26 ` Git {log,diff} against tracked branch? Petr Baudis
2009-03-18 21:12 ` [PATCH] Introduce %<branch> as shortcut to the tracked branch Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-18 21:41 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2009-03-18 21:46 ` [PATCH v2] " Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-18 21:58 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2009-03-18 22:43 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-18 22:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-03-18 22:46 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-19 14:52 ` Michael J Gruber
2009-03-19 15:17 ` Michael J Gruber
2009-03-20 0:23 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-20 0:38 ` ref name troubles, was " Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-20 0:40 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-03-20 0:44 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-03-20 5:59 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-03-20 9:29 ` [PATCH v3] Introduce BEL<branch> " Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-20 9:42 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2009-03-20 9:54 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-20 12:33 ` Santi Béjar
2009-03-20 12:45 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2009-03-20 13:05 ` Matthieu Moy
2009-03-20 12:46 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-20 12:53 ` Mikael Magnusson
2009-03-20 14:00 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-20 10:04 ` [PATCH] Document and test the new % shotcut for " Michael J Gruber
2009-03-20 10:31 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-20 10:38 ` Michael J Gruber
2009-03-20 11:16 ` Petr Baudis
2009-03-20 11:48 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-22 17:40 ` Petr Baudis
2009-03-20 14:15 ` Michael J Gruber
2009-03-20 16:17 ` [PATCH v4] Introduce %<branch> as shortcut to " Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-20 17:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-03-20 17:32 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-20 18:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-03-20 19:36 ` Jeff King [this message]
2009-03-20 20:28 ` Julian Phillips
2009-03-20 20:50 ` Jeff King
2009-03-20 23:08 ` Julian Phillips
2009-03-20 23:20 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-03-20 23:41 ` Julian Phillips
2009-03-20 23:45 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-03-21 0:35 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2009-03-21 1:10 ` Miles Bader
2009-03-21 13:24 ` Julian Phillips
2009-03-21 13:28 ` Julian Phillips
2009-03-20 17:08 ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-03-20 6:05 ` ref name troubles, was Re: [PATCH v2] " Jeff King
2009-03-20 6:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-03-20 9:30 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-20 11:12 ` Petr Baudis
2009-03-20 11:46 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-20 11:50 ` Petr Baudis
2009-03-20 11:57 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-20 14:31 ` Michael J Gruber
2009-03-20 15:01 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-20 15:12 ` Michael J Gruber
2009-03-20 16:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-03-20 19:34 ` Daniel Barkalow
2009-03-20 21:48 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-21 21:00 ` Junio C Hamano
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