Stefan Beller wrote: > 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? Would it be possible to implement linking for <tagname> optionally followed by something like that? Just tags should be links too, right? > (Special case for git.git: Sometimes in a discussion you want to explain > stuff and may use HEAD^ or such to demonstrate the use case. Other > projects would not use that as much in descriptive text I would assume. So > we'd need to make sure > changing refs (i.e. branches, symbolic refs such as HEAD, FETCH_HEAD) are > not considered worth linkifying.) What does 'HEAD^' mean? If it is 'the commit before this one', then why not link it? Thanks, Steve. -- 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