From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Julian Phillips Subject: Re: tracking branch for a rebase Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 00:17:37 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: References: <20090904135414.GA3728@honk.padd.com> <4AA124DD.1030208@drmicha.warpmail.net> <20090904181846.GC19093@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20090904185949.GA21583@atjola.homenet> <20090905061250.GA29863@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20090905140127.GA29037@atjola.homenet> <20090905142841.GB15631@coredump.intra.peff.net> <7vfxaz9wfi.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20090907084324.GB17997@coredump.intra.peff.net> <4AA4D81A.1030203@drmicha.warpmail.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Johannes Schindelin , Jeff King , Junio C Hamano , =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Bj=F6rn_Steinbrink?= , Pete Wyckoff , git@vger.kernel.org To: Michael J Gruber X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Sep 09 01:22:01 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MlA0e-0002A8-Lo for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2009 01:22:01 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752423AbZIHXVZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Sep 2009 19:21:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751362AbZIHXVZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Sep 2009 19:21:25 -0400 Received: from electron.quantumfyre.co.uk ([87.106.55.16]:43370 "EHLO electron.quantumfyre.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751675AbZIHXVY (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Sep 2009 19:21:24 -0400 Received: from neutron.quantumfyre.co.uk (neutron.quantumfyre.co.uk [212.159.54.235]) by electron.quantumfyre.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3004332D97F for ; Wed, 9 Sep 2009 00:21:26 +0100 (BST) Received: (qmail 10340 invoked by uid 103); 9 Sep 2009 00:17:37 +0100 Received: from reaper.quantumfyre.co.uk by neutron.quantumfyre.co.uk (envelope-from , uid 201) with qmail-scanner-2.05st (clamdscan: 0.94.2/9782. spamassassin: 3.2.1. perlscan: 2.05st. Clear:RC:1(212.159.54.234):. Processed in 0.025755 secs); 08 Sep 2009 23:17:37 -0000 Received: from reaper.quantumfyre.co.uk (212.159.54.234) by neutron.quantumfyre.co.uk with SMTP; 9 Sep 2009 00:17:37 +0100 X-X-Sender: jp3@reaper.quantumfyre.co.uk In-Reply-To: <4AA4D81A.1030203@drmicha.warpmail.net> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LNX 1167 2008-08-23) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, 7 Sep 2009, Michael J Gruber wrote: > Solution needs to be: > - practical (short, clear) > - not too brutal (on existing users of legal "exotic" refnames) > - extensible (for later uses) How about '/^' and 'ref/^'? Since you can't create a ref ending / ... -- Julian --- When you ask a question, do you truly want to know the answer, or are you merely flaunting your power? -- DMITRI HARKONNEN, Notes to My Sons