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From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
To: Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>,
	Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>, Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>,
	B.Steinbrink@gmx.de, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] Introduce %<branch> as shortcut to the tracked branch
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:45:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fabb9a1e0903201645n29256fbav7fc0bde4c5cc05e7@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0903202324170.13726@reaper.quantumfyre.co.uk>

Heya,

On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 00:41, Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk> wrote:
> To use the new syntax you type %master only.  What I was proposing was a way
> to get at the branch that you had before the wizzy new feature was added.
>  Something you only do once to rename it - why waste an easy to type
> sequence on that?

Oooooh, sorry, I totally understood your suggestion the wrong way
around! In that case, I like it! :)

> I agree that adding some more reserved characters is a reasonable way
> forward - but I think a way should be provided for people who are _already_
> using those characters to rename their branches to something that avoids
> those characters in a simple (but not necessarily easy to type) way.

Your suggestion on how to escape the DWIMery sounds sane to me :).

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier

  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-20 23:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200903181448.50706.agruen@suse.de>
2009-03-18 18:26 ` Git {log,diff} against tracked branch? Petr Baudis
2009-03-18 21:12   ` [PATCH] Introduce %<branch> as shortcut to the tracked branch Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-18 21:41     ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2009-03-18 21:46     ` [PATCH v2] " Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-18 21:58       ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2009-03-18 22:43         ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-18 22:34       ` Junio C Hamano
2009-03-18 22:46         ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-19 14:52           ` Michael J Gruber
2009-03-19 15:17             ` Michael J Gruber
2009-03-20  0:23           ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-20  0:38             ` ref name troubles, was " Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-20  0:40               ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-03-20  0:44                 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-03-20  5:59                   ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-03-20  9:29                   ` [PATCH v3] Introduce BEL<branch> " Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-20  9:42                     ` Wincent Colaiuta
2009-03-20  9:54                       ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-20 12:33                         ` Santi Béjar
2009-03-20 12:45                           ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2009-03-20 13:05                             ` Matthieu Moy
2009-03-20 12:46                           ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-20 12:53                             ` Mikael Magnusson
2009-03-20 14:00                               ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-20 10:04                     ` [PATCH] Document and test the new % shotcut for " Michael J Gruber
2009-03-20 10:31                       ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-20 10:38                         ` Michael J Gruber
2009-03-20 11:16                         ` Petr Baudis
2009-03-20 11:48                           ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-22 17:40                             ` Petr Baudis
2009-03-20 14:15                         ` Michael J Gruber
2009-03-20 16:17                     ` [PATCH v4] Introduce %<branch> as shortcut to " Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-20 17:03                       ` Junio C Hamano
2009-03-20 17:32                         ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-20 18:02                         ` Junio C Hamano
2009-03-20 19:36                           ` Jeff King
2009-03-20 20:28                             ` Julian Phillips
2009-03-20 20:50                               ` Jeff King
2009-03-20 23:08                         ` Julian Phillips
2009-03-20 23:20                           ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-03-20 23:41                             ` Julian Phillips
2009-03-20 23:45                               ` Sverre Rabbelier [this message]
2009-03-21  0:35                           ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2009-03-21  1:10                             ` Miles Bader
2009-03-21 13:24                             ` Julian Phillips
2009-03-21 13:28                               ` Julian Phillips
2009-03-20 17:08                       ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-03-20  6:05                 ` ref name troubles, was Re: [PATCH v2] " Jeff King
2009-03-20  6:57                   ` Junio C Hamano
2009-03-20  9:30                     ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-20 11:12                       ` Petr Baudis
2009-03-20 11:46                         ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-20 11:50                           ` Petr Baudis
2009-03-20 11:57                             ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-20 14:31                               ` Michael J Gruber
2009-03-20 15:01                                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-20 15:12                                   ` Michael J Gruber
2009-03-20 16:47                         ` Junio C Hamano
2009-03-20 19:34                           ` Daniel Barkalow
2009-03-20 21:48                             ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-21 21:00                 ` Junio C Hamano

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