From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Hidden refs
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:46:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101013174647.GB13752@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vvd56m1ke.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
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.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-13 17:46 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 [this message]
2010-10-13 17:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-10-13 17:53 ` Jonathan Nieder
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