From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sverre Rabbelier Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] Introduce % as shortcut to the tracked branch Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:45:03 +0100 Message-ID: References: <200903181448.50706.agruen@suse.de> <20090320004029.GX23521@spearce.org> <20090320004450.GY23521@spearce.org> <7v7i2ki0sw.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Junio C Hamano , Johannes Schindelin , "Shawn O. Pearce" , Petr Baudis , Andreas Gruenbacher , B.Steinbrink@gmx.de, git@vger.kernel.org To: Julian Phillips X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Mar 21 00:46:52 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 1LkoQM-00052x-1T for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:46:50 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753762AbZCTXpX convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:45:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753355AbZCTXpX (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:45:23 -0400 Received: from mail-fx0-f158.google.com ([209.85.220.158]:34526 "EHLO mail-fx0-f158.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752461AbZCTXpV convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:45:21 -0400 Received: by fxm2 with SMTP id 2so1099359fxm.37 for ; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:45:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :received:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=MS3+JzZK0JZJowpa1R14xaKwOUDb43mhkXeb+gkUhDo=; b=t1XJUwbcfMxu17mHZCygFnA4J5oxwKdwIGA9edzcNuhha8DJkIqjQkAi667SIKU5W4 KIn3k2h7BrZcgyR1EOFguJQJeCilk/FNoxDQiHka6OzHrNhuidTSsL1b+4jiAWfmHd3A 4JdiflWsAIxB3jo+S+VMTMzjB4uQ+pA/3P37I= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=dL97q9doIAUnNUVtoXAKT/uSGM74hQpomGI79n4H/vk5ut6MVoZCFVT1NZD+9eLe9e T5c4dCdCARz+ksJUH60SIKkoF+48SuIvA5Htiql+Gohanh9CAJZZ/eIWiSZmdYsA4nnI zp9eWOqBUWyJ0slywZy/SBfEPQ7HS8q/C0zRg= In-Reply-To: Received: by 10.103.102.17 with SMTP id e17mr1950482mum.119.1237592718334; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:45:18 -0700 (PDT) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Heya, On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 00:41, Julian Phillips wrote: > To use the new syntax you type %master only. =A0What I was proposing = was a way > to get at the branch that you had before the wizzy new feature was ad= ded. > =A0Something you only do once to rename it - why waste an easy to typ= e > 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 _al= ready_ > using those characters to rename their branches to something that avo= ids > those characters in a simple (but not necessarily easy to type) way. Your suggestion on how to escape the DWIMery sounds sane to me :). --=20 Cheers, Sverre Rabbelier