From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Introduce % as shortcut to the tracked branch Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:34:26 -0700 Message-ID: <7vr60ubgul.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <200903181448.50706.agruen@suse.de> <20090318182603.GM8940@machine.or.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Petr Baudis , Andreas Gruenbacher , git@vger.kernel.org To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Mar 18 23:36:09 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Lk4Mp-0004R0-L2 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:36:08 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754481AbZCRWeh (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:34:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753646AbZCRWeh (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:34:37 -0400 Received: from a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:43871 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753371AbZCRWeg (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:34:36 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0EDC7080; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:34:34 -0400 (EDT) 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-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id ED3E97078; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:34:29 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Johannes Schindelin's message of "Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:46:22 +0100 (CET)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: F4D055EE-140C-11DE-8983-C5D912508E2D-77302942!a-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Johannes Schindelin writes: > Suggested by Pasky. > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin In the longer term who suggested matters much less than why such a feature is desirable, how it is used, and without it what is impossible and/or cumbersome. What's the motivation behind this? You do not have to explain it to me, but you should explain it to the history that records this commit, and to the users who read doccos.