On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Jeff King wrote:
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:02:33AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
A na?ve 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.
I considered suggesting this earlier, but didn't as the behaviour is not
consistent. If you have a user named master then you have to type
'~master' (including quotes), if you don't you can type ~master, and you
always have to type '~' instead of ~. I didn't particularly fancy typing
all those quotes, and certainly not explaining the behaviour to people not
overly familiar with unix shell behaviour.
--
Julian
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