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Fri, 16 Oct 2026 14:40:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Junio C Hamano To: "D. Ben Knoble" Cc: Bence =?utf-8?B?Q3PDs2vDoXM=?= , Kristoffer Haugsbakk , git@vger.kernel.org, Jeff King Subject: Re: [Bug] Porcelain allows creation of '@' branch In-Reply-To: (D. Ben Knoble's message of "Fri, 16 Oct 2026 14:09:57 -0400") References: <4e8d8b75-ddf4-4602-a2a8-26e5214c65f0@arm.com> <958622c0-e0a5-4e27-9815-cd1fff2ed111@app.fastmail.com> <2006115b-bcf2-486a-ac7a-681caae686b4@arm.com> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2026 11:40:18 -0700 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain "D. Ben Knoble" writes: > But shorthands are convenient day-to-day. What's a bad habit about that? A shorthand may be convenient, but not all "convenient" things are automatically good. A poorly designed, ill-thought-out shorthand that forbids a branch whose name follows a set of clearly defined rules perfectly well is good example.