Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > How would you know(/code) that v1.6.0-rc0~120^2 is a text worth linking? > "v1.6.0-rc0" is a custom string as that is how we name tags in this project. > It can follow any convention in other projects. > > Maybe a first approximation is if there is a `~` followed by numbers > or a ^ character, inspect the whole thing if it is a reference into the history? You (as a gitk process running in a repository) know what tags are in your repository, so you can find the above pattern and see if the prefix matches any of the known tag. That way, you do not have to worry about having to special case HEAD etc. -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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