Subject: Re: [PATCH v2.1] Teach rebase interactive the mark command

From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:29:58 -0400

Jrg Sommer <[email-masked]> wrote:
> The format of the marks is as close as possible to the format of the
> marks used by fast-export and fast-import,

Yay.

> i.e. :001 == :1 and
> “:12a” == :12. It differs from the format of fast-import in that point
> that it requires a digit after the colon, i.e. “:abc” != :0 and “:-12”
> and “:+12” aren't allowed.

Uh, that's a bug in fast-import.  ":4abc" is _not_ a mark if you
read the language specification.  Only ":4" is a mark.  So we are
accepting crap and reading it in odd ways.  Not good.

-- 
Shawn.