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From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: ref name troubles, was Re: [PATCH v2] Introduce %<branch> as 
	shortcut to the tracked branch
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 06:59:00 +0100
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Heya,

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 01:44, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> In hindsight, I wish we had reserved all of the "fun" characters
> like !@#$%^&*():;~'"\ and prevented them from ever appearing in a
> ref name.

Maybe we should add a --pedantic which whines when you use any of
those in a branch name; oh wait, wrong project... :P.

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier