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From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
To: Keith Derrick <keith.derrick@lge.com>,
	Keith Derrick <keith.derrick@lge.com>,
	"git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: "simon.busch@lge.com" <simon.busch@lge.com>
Subject: RE: BUG or FEATURE? Use of '/' in branch names
Date: Fri, 02 May 2014 17:10:52 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <536417ecd0104_1c7bdcd2f0b9@nysa.notmuch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AAC0CF0A2CCEC34CBE983015FD81C4F7392A504B61@AICEXMBXCL02.LGE.NET>

Keith Derrick wrote:
> I can see the value in grouping branches in a directory tree under
> refs/heads, but wouldn't it make more sense to simply escape the '/'
> in the branch name so that 'hotfix/b1' is stored on disk as
> 'hotfix\/b1'?

This would be nice for remote helpers: Mercurial can have "hotfix" and
"hotifx/b1", so importing such a Mercurial repository creates problems.

-- 
Felipe Contreras

  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-02 22:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <5363D1B4.1000503@lge.com>
2014-05-02 22:04 ` BUG or FEATURE? Use of '/' in branch names Keith Derrick
2014-05-02 22:10   ` Felipe Contreras [this message]
2014-05-02 22:16   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-02 22:16   ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-05-02 22:36     ` Keith Derrick
2014-05-02 22:43       ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-05-03  7:35     ` Dennis Kaarsemaker
2014-05-04  5:39       ` Michael Haggerty

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