Well, it sounded like we didn't like the ":" extender from another conversation on this thread. Do you think this patch should move back in that direction? On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 3:14 AM Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Nickolai Belakovski <nbelakovski@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > There's been a little back and forth on it, but my understanding is > > that using the colon separator bypasses the caching mechanism in the > > atoms, so every instance of "worktree:path" in a format string would > > require a lookup. > > Would that be a problem, though? You now have a singleton hashmap > that is a file-scope global not tied to any particular atom, so...?