Hi, On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > > > > > Suggested by Pasky. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> > > > > In the longer term who suggested matters much less than why such a > > feature is desirable, how it is used, and without it what is impossible > > and/or cumbersome. What's the motivation behind this? > > > > You do not have to explain it to me, but you should explain it to the > > history that records this commit, and to the users who read doccos. > > And that's not all... Documentation updates and tests for % and %<branch> > are missing, too. Darn, darn, DARN! Just when I squeezed that half an hour from the time I have to sleep, to provide documentation and tests, _just_ after I finished that, I got the idea that '%' might not be a 'bad ref char' after all. And of course I was correct. Just try this: $ git checkout -b %helloworld and weep... so, no v3 of that patch, even if I have it right here. Ciao, Dscho "who goes to bed being frustrated" -- 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