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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow branch names that end with ".lock"
Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 17:54:17 -0700
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> A project policy for naming branches could be to use a dot as a word
> separator (instead of '-' which is often done by existing projects), and
> "fix.vm.lock" could be a very valid name for a branch to address a VM
> locking issues.

I think we sent the same patch... except...
 
>  git-gui/lib/index.tcl                    |    2 +-

Don't do that.  I'll patch git-gui and send you a pull request.

-- 
Shawn.