From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stefano Lattarini Subject: Re: New special handing of '@' character broke my use case Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 20:20:54 +0100 Message-ID: <520BD896.4020501@gmail.com> References: <520BC017.7050907@gmail.com> <7vd2pgtagc.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Aug 14 21:21:06 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V9gcy-00053o-Na for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 21:21:05 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760026Ab3HNTU7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Aug 2013 15:20:59 -0400 Received: from mail-we0-f171.google.com ([74.125.82.171]:50695 "EHLO mail-we0-f171.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758636Ab3HNTU6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Aug 2013 15:20:58 -0400 Received: by mail-we0-f171.google.com with SMTP id q55so8250069wes.30 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 12:20:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=+eYQv3q4Te3JdPBx8HVXQIP+KYWBeZHeLECTNiGBsYY=; b=a/NemFf1ZjybcP3lg9FZLv0NP1Hh/8nd3SSf3wx4yDedfubECG5FubhdLh83Mq4WJz 9pjhAiwZU4rhHQS6OMxbNDUHG5xaXzgKJ3bAJSmgMWXNDHu01VpKT+xAAdKJkd1b2nAL 7SP+YIPd+8edUcQqcy3BisWGCPxDOo/bQuU+HUNeKlSjRXl8zURfWVau3qJcTZIfUo+n EOSEITbJDXV58eY9EFUina6/guH1G6i4lVVYge7aKvPwLIbFVSBbrt1tRIzPaHETS+um 52VYaF8//EJ7ApNH76ZMcd+dBj1aa0cvBhPZVS36UZLpSJkcBUbbChcGuaGFNYRvan7Q SpyA== X-Received: by 10.180.10.99 with SMTP id h3mr2683351wib.0.1376508056718; Wed, 14 Aug 2013 12:20:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from marcovaldo.dub.corp.google.com ([2620:0:1040:205:8a51:fbff:fe5c:1cad]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id r6sm4791065wiw.0.2013.08.14.12.20.55 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 14 Aug 2013 12:20:55 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130804 Thunderbird/17.0.8 In-Reply-To: <7vd2pgtagc.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: [re-sending to the list, sorry Junio for the duplicate mail] On 08/14/2013 07:05 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Stefano Lattarini writes: > >> My problems is that some new automagical interpretation of the bare >> @' character (introduced after 1.8.3) has destroyed my use case: >> ... >> I don't want to ask you to revert this new behaviour, but I'd like to >> at least have an option to disable it. > > I do not think it is simply not worth the complexity to selectively > disable it. If it is a regression, it is much better to simply > revert, if we can (it appears that cdfd9483 (Add new @ shortcut for > HEAD, 2013-05-07) can be reverted without any textual context, but > there may already be new stuff that depends on the "@"). > I'm not sure I want to force a revert simply to cater to a personal idiom of mine (and not that important). I'd first like to hear what the community thinks about the issue (with silence meaning "don't revert"). > For the upcoming release, I am very much tempted to revert it and > let the topic retried, by people who really want the "let's save > four keystrokes and replace it with @ aka Shift-", > without hurting your use case (and others), after the upcoming > release. > > What do others think? > I second this question :-) Thanks, Stefano