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From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] Introduce %<branch> as shortcut to the tracked branch
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:20:21 +0100
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Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
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To: Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
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Heya,

On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 00:08, Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.u=
k> wrote:
> =A0git branch -m "'%master" percent-master

Which kinda defeats the purpose of having a short-and-easy-to-write
refname, no? "'%master" is not that easy to type, I at least get my
fingers mixed up in the "'% sequence. Perhaps we should reserve these
special characters now, and deprecate their use? Junio seemed to be
open to that (quoted below)...

> Just be honest and say "You may have a branch whose name begins with =
a '%'
> and you cannot refer to it anymore in certain contexts.  Too bad.  Do=
n't
> do it next time you create a new branch".  I _can_ buy that argument.

--=20
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier