Hi, On Sun, 7 May 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote: > [...] > > and if your branch names are purely alphabetical and lower-case, you can > now write > > [branch.origin] > remote = true > url = git://git.kernel.org/... > fetch = master > > [branch.master] > pull = origin > > and it will be parsed _exactly_ the same as > > ["origin"] > remote = true > url = git://git.kernel.org/... > fetch = master > > ["master"] > pull = origin > > while the [branch.origin] syntax allows old versions of git to happily > ignore it. So that would be a kind of cheesy work-around: the new > double-quoted format is only _required_ for any branch-names that have > special characters in it. Eek. The ["blablabla"] syntax fails the is-it-obvious-what-this-does test. What *is* wrong with the " for " syntax? IIRC it was even proposed by you, and it happens to be backward compatible. Ciao, Dscho - : 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