From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [RFC] Hidden refs Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 10:42:41 -0700 Message-ID: <7vvd56m1ke.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <4CB5CEA3.8020702@xiplink.com> <20101013173555.GA13188@sigill.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Marc Branchaud , Git Mailing List To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Oct 13 19:43:04 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P65Lw-0005uM-5b for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 19:43:00 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752188Ab0JMRmx (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:42:53 -0400 Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:64511 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752097Ab0JMRmw (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:42:52 -0400 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D0EADE79E; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:42:51 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=yKOIjjFH3NjYo09YWd6VGb2s+xU=; b=XiCEu0 HNNrCGaQ3gnqYsihluvWJObHaa0e60BdBTIP3a3wEG8YaVdooHxV9NfIBzqRsqWF y0s+F1T9HYwFKwi6Aw+eGWxWX9bV2+lPniJbNrSkI/QA/YVf0WYO2vqGvVK8DO9r twfW+kcSOaZ1oTaa2zY9LXeeZNkvhyivJGfpA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=I58JbHx4gPw7RPqNAlYt/f6Fd3ZjNaG1 LO1YYCwlG14NbgqNPPF+8iDR+ucB5Te3fHSKlcAHlJBSmglCU5JOMmEDkj2gjE/W RFQXgO2o0e8ouRjGyn7jBJ7RnrkpxBHhTaYTtXqXOdfv/MiAANHmH/r2sDK4I41u G/8Sg8L+cGQ= Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix. (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9673DE79D; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:42:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [76.102.252.155]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EE410DE79C; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:42:43 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20101013173555.GA13188@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Wed\, 13 Oct 2010 13\:35\:55 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 4B073330-D6F1-11DF-98F9-030CEE7EF46B-77302942!a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jeff King 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?