On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > Yes, I wanted to do this myself for a while. The only issue I > might have is what the separator character between rev and path > should be. I didn't put a lot of thought into it, but using ':' not only is pretty visually pleasing, it also means that shell completion automatically works at least on bash, even without any git-specific completion rules. That's not true for a lot of other special characters: colon really is special, exactly because it has been used for things like PATH separators, etc. I'm a total filename completion junkie - I simply cannot type in a filename any more. I'll literally press <tab> to complete even short filenames, just because it gives me that nice confirmation of the existence of the filename (ie I've typed it all in, and the <tab> adds the space after the filename). So to me, ':' is just clearly superior. I can't think of any other separator that works with filename completion and has no shell issues, _and_ looks logical. And I thought we already disallowed ':' in branch names because cogito uses them for the strange <rev>:<rev> syntax.. Linus - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html