From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce•org>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx•de>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>, Petr Baudis <pasky@suse•cz>,
Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse•de>,
git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: ref name troubles, was Re: [PATCH v2] Introduce %<branch> as shortcut to the tracked branch
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:44:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090320004450.GY23521@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090320004029.GX23521@spearce.org>
"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce•org> wrote:
> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx•de> wrote:
> > On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> >
> > > Just try this:
> > >
> > > $ git checkout -b %helloworld
> >
> > It gets worse. Much worse.
> >
> > Try this (triggered by a comment by Ilari on IRC):
> >
> > $ git checkout -b '@{1}'
> >
> > That _works_! WTH?
>
> '@' is not reserved. Neither is '{' or '}'. Neither is
> the combination.
In hindsight, I wish we had reserved all of the "fun" characters
like !@#$%^&*():;~'"\ and prevented them from ever appearing in a
ref name.
Instead only what check_ref_format() in refs.c ll.694 tells is
is reserved:
671 /*
672 * Make sure "ref" is something reasonable to have under ".git/refs/";
673 * We do not like it if:
674 *
675 * - any path component of it begins with ".", or
676 * - it has double dots "..", or
677 * - it has ASCII control character, "~", "^", ":" or SP, anywhere, or
678 * - it ends with a "/".
679 */
Heh. At least : and SP are reserved.
Use BEL for your %helloworld hack. It'll be fun to type. :-)
--
Shawn.
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Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2009-03-18 18:26 ` Git {log,diff} against tracked branch? Petr Baudis
2009-03-18 21:12 ` [PATCH] Introduce %<branch> as shortcut to the tracked branch Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-18 21:41 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2009-03-18 21:46 ` [PATCH v2] " Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-18 21:58 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2009-03-18 22:43 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-18 22:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-03-18 22:46 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-19 14:52 ` Michael J Gruber
2009-03-19 15:17 ` Michael J Gruber
2009-03-20 0:23 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-20 0:38 ` ref name troubles, was " Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-20 0:40 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-03-20 0:44 ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
2009-03-20 5:59 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-03-20 9:29 ` [PATCH v3] Introduce BEL<branch> " Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-20 9:42 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2009-03-20 9:54 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-20 12:33 ` Santi Béjar
2009-03-20 12:45 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2009-03-20 13:05 ` Matthieu Moy
2009-03-20 12:46 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-20 12:53 ` Mikael Magnusson
2009-03-20 14:00 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-20 10:04 ` [PATCH] Document and test the new % shotcut for " Michael J Gruber
2009-03-20 10:31 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-20 10:38 ` Michael J Gruber
2009-03-20 11:16 ` Petr Baudis
2009-03-20 11:48 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-22 17:40 ` Petr Baudis
2009-03-20 14:15 ` Michael J Gruber
2009-03-20 16:17 ` [PATCH v4] Introduce %<branch> as shortcut to " Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-20 17:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-03-20 17:32 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-20 18:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-03-20 19:36 ` Jeff King
2009-03-20 20:28 ` Julian Phillips
2009-03-20 20:50 ` Jeff King
2009-03-20 23:08 ` Julian Phillips
2009-03-20 23:20 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-03-20 23:41 ` Julian Phillips
2009-03-20 23:45 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-03-21 0:35 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2009-03-21 1:10 ` Miles Bader
2009-03-21 13:24 ` Julian Phillips
2009-03-21 13:28 ` Julian Phillips
2009-03-20 17:08 ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-03-20 6:05 ` ref name troubles, was Re: [PATCH v2] " Jeff King
2009-03-20 6:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-03-20 9:30 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-20 11:12 ` Petr Baudis
2009-03-20 11:46 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-20 11:50 ` Petr Baudis
2009-03-20 11:57 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-20 14:31 ` Michael J Gruber
2009-03-20 15:01 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-20 15:12 ` Michael J Gruber
2009-03-20 16:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-03-20 19:34 ` Daniel Barkalow
2009-03-20 21:48 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-21 21:00 ` Junio C Hamano
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