Subject: Re: [RFC] get_sha1() shorthands for blob/tree objects

From: Andreas Ericsson <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 10:15:44 +0200

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
>>And I thought we already disallowed ':' in branch names because cogito 
>>uses them for the strange <rev>:<rev> syntax.. 
> 
> 
> Btw, pathnames with ':' in them aren't a problem. It's only revision
> names that can't have ':' in them and still be used together with this 
> syntax.
> 
> If you have a pathname with ':', it's fine to do
> 
> 	git cat-file v1.2.4:pathname:with:colon
> 
> because the magic revision parsing only cares about the _first_ colon, and 
> will split that into "v1.2.4" and "pathname:with:colon" without ever even 
> looking at the other ones.
> 

Except that you'll have to explicitly state HEAD:pathname:with:colon, or 
does it try finding a file with the argument verbatim first?

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