On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:02:33AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > A naïve question. > > Has nobody suggested to use a really illegal characters such as ':' > instead? After all, we are not talking something that you can use in > refspecs but another way to spell branch names. But if this goes into dwim_ref, then won't it be usable for refspecs? Or even if it isn't, then imagine the user who doesn't know this and types git push :foo unwittingly deleting the remote "foo". Yes, that is unlikely (since why would they push the tracking branch of foo?), but I don't think it makes sense to argue that it doesn't have confusing (and potentially dangerous) consequenses. > Alternatively, '~master' may have a nice connotation that means "where > master calls its home". I think that is quite clever and doesn't have any meaning for a revision specifier already. I like it. -Peff -- 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
