On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 08:28:28PM +0000, Julian Phillips wrote: >> 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. Oh, good point. I wasn't thinking it through. My initial thought was that there is no problem conflicting with a file ~master/foo, since you generally don't want to use absolute paths that are likely outside your git repository. But of course the shell doesn't know this and will screw you, which I failed to consider. -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
