From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Miles Bader Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] Introduce % as shortcut to the tracked branch Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 10:10:48 +0900 Message-ID: <87zlff8yuf.fsf@catnip.gol.com> References: <200903181448.50706.agruen@suse.de> <7v7i2ki0sw.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <200903210135.33729.agruen@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Mar 21 02:31:00 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 1Lkq39-0004dT-IZ for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 02:31:00 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752068AbZCUB33 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:29:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751761AbZCUB33 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:29:29 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:55417 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751706AbZCUB32 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:29:28 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Lkq1b-00011z-Ci for git@vger.kernel.org; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 01:29:23 +0000 Received: from 218.231.175.8.eo.eaccess.ne.jp ([218.231.175.8]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 01:29:23 +0000 Received: from miles by 218.231.175.8.eo.eaccess.ne.jp with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 01:29:23 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 218.231.175.8.eo.eaccess.ne.jp System-Type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Cancel-Lock: sha1:AAW/uzAnTn91KNhKYQkSUVfXqmg= Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Andreas Gruenbacher writes: > To me the most obvious escape sequence would be \x for disabling whatever > special meaning x has (for non-alphabetic x). With quoting you likely > eventually end up needing \' in some cases anyway... I think it's a good idea to _avoid_ using backslash as an escape when possible -- the potential for confusion and screwups from multiple layers all interpreting backslash should be familiar to most people here... (single-quote suffers from the same problem a bit, but at least it's not quite as overused as backslash) -Miles -- One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do, and always a clever thing to say. -- Will Durant