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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff•net>
Cc: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink•com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Hidden refs
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 10:51:12 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vmxqim167.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101013174647.GB13752@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Wed\, 13 Oct 2010 13\:46\:48 -0400")

Jeff King <peff@peff•net> writes:

> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 10:42:41AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Jeff King <peff@peff•net> writes:
>> 
>> > Yeah, I believe "." at the front of a directory component is explicitly
>> > forbidden by check_ref_format. I don't recall whether there was a
>> > specific rationale, or whether it was simply a can of worms we didn't
>> > want to explore.
>> 
>> Is "log foo...bar" a symmetric difference between foo and bar, or is it an
>> assymmetric one from foo and .bar?
>
> Thanks, I was sure there was a simple example of how it would make
> things ambiguous, but for some reason I couldn't think of one.

Of course, it points at an existing bug as well.  --- the example could
mean an asymmetric difference from foo. to bar ;-)

  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-13 17:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-13 15:22 [RFC] Hidden refs Marc Branchaud
2010-10-13 15:32 ` Stephen Bash
2010-10-13 16:14   ` Marc Branchaud
2010-10-13 17:35 ` Jeff King
2010-10-13 17:42   ` Junio C Hamano
2010-10-13 17:46     ` Jeff King
2010-10-13 17:51       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2010-10-13 17:53         ` Jonathan Nieder

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