From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Add --track option to git clone Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:02:23 -0800 Message-ID: <7v1vjd9dz4.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <1259707865-6561-1-git-send-email-sn_@gmx.net> <20091202192028.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com> <20091202190807.GB30778@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20091203060708.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com> <20091202223728.GB9691@coredump.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Nanako Shiraishi , David Soria Parra , git@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Dec 03 00:02:41 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NFyDY-0005Wg-CS for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:02:40 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755027AbZLBXC3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Dec 2009 18:02:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754856AbZLBXC3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Dec 2009 18:02:29 -0500 Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:40253 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754952AbZLBXC2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Dec 2009 18:02:28 -0500 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDE23844BA; Wed, 2 Dec 2009 18:02:33 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=4JOLYPKQn9jRcS4rYPrRb8MSW84=; b=Jlp3kT 9nJRQ6TOZWFAyW4qMNJ5I9QWkrKP4RygcQU7qdYBenorPmvj3L2wVD7T+yRbr4ab 9hZdvOdd6jJWZBhgzdceHWhC1Om/jOcdFsCRt0ROd5aAZilBBx58G8VlaSejzePf /v/PWyOlMAhHeCenwSjiQIiTGxMH7byZwP6ww= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=INoAoKzrPPpLYViH0uo5UAW9SUdLPgu0 Dufqy5HCaV8p8EPyAqA19y9KLW12kjGo1wXC2LSao1AYHvmDi/CDtv4hRQ8aRvv5 xgze5T7TcFklJo2O0/psYAiJfALHYkw23rflEmuz0KYV3TGFKtm5gtdIJDSv0ufB o+RLWjD+/b4= Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix. (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CA25844B7; Wed, 2 Dec 2009 18:02:29 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CDAD7844B3; Wed, 2 Dec 2009 18:02:24 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20091202223728.GB9691@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Wed\, 2 Dec 2009 17\:37\:29 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: C41DA41E-DF96-11DE-B688-9F3FEE7EF46B-77302942!a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jeff King writes: >> git clone -f maint,master,next,pu git.git > > Yeah, that is much nicer. I think "," is allowed in ref names, but I > am tempted not to care here. It is not as if this is a low-level > feature, and most people will not be crazy enough to use commas in their > branch-names. IOW, you will get into trouble only if you have crazy > names _and_ you want to use this particular feature. If we wanted to be > complete, we could provide a quoting mechanism, but that is perhaps > excessive. Yeah, I agree it is Ok not to support crazy people in this case. Not supporting from the very beginning is quite different from _breaking_ them ;-)