On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > And I thought we already disallowed ':' in branch names because cogito > uses them for the strange <rev>:<rev> syntax.. Btw, pathnames with ':' in them aren't a problem. It's only revision names that can't have ':' in them and still be used together with this syntax. If you have a pathname with ':', it's fine to do git cat-file v1.2.4:pathname:with:colon because the magic revision parsing only cares about the _first_ colon, and will split that into "v1.2.4" and "pathname:with:colon" without ever even looking at the other ones. 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