On Saturday, 21 March 2009 0:08:42 Julian Phillips wrote: > How about adding a generic escape hatch, that would cover this and > future extensions? > > Let a ref that starts with a single quote be taken as given and not > processed. You have to escape it to get it past the shell, but that makes > it rather unlikely that anyone has used a name that starts with a quote - > and if they have you can still use this mechanism to rename it. To me the most obvious escape sequence would be \x for disabling whatever special meaning x has (for non-alphabetic x). With quoting you likely eventually end up needing \' in some cases anyway... Andreas -- 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
