Hi, On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Jeff King wrote: > Anyway, to recap (my impression of) the discussion leading up to this: > - the cogito feature is useful > - the cogito syntax does not allow for multiple branches to be > specified Here somebody else than me (IIRC Junio) proposed this syntax: git clone --track <name> [--track <name2>] <url> Nobody was interested enough to implement it. I then proposed delimiting with spaces, since they were _not part of a URL_: git clone "<url> <name> <name2>" but some people insisted on "#", which I pointed out (several times!) is a no go, and I actually provided reasons for that. > - one such syntax proposed was git://foo.tld/bar.git#blue,red > - one problem with that syntax is that comma is a valid character > in the branch name, and '#' is a valid character in the repo name > - one proposed solution was that '#' and ',' when used as data should > be URL-encoded > - flamefest begin > > So I think nobody disagrees that such a feature is useful; there is > disagreement about the syntax. Probably there is not enough need, too, and the discussion will peter out again, without anybody letting some code talk, and I will not make the mistake again of reviving this discussion. Promise. Ciao, Dscho - 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
