From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: remote#branch Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:08:32 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: References: <20071029174000.GA4449@efreet.light.src> <20071029214925.GH21133@thunk.org> <20071030030104.GK21133@thunk.org> <7vtzo9s221.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20071030044026.GA9600@thunk.org> <46a038f90710301741n67526976vda1cd131270aa7f@mail.gmail.com> <20071031014347.GB23274@coredump.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Martin Langhoff , Linus Torvalds , Theodore Tso , Junio C Hamano , Jan Hudec , Petr Baudis , Paolo Ciarrocchi , git@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Oct 31 04:10:03 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1In3xy-0008EG-Ip for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 04:10:03 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751122AbXJaDJs (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:09:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751344AbXJaDJs (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:09:48 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:34192 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750875AbXJaDJr (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:09:47 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 31 Oct 2007 03:09:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (EHLO openvpn-client) [138.251.11.103] by mail.gmx.net (mp053) with SMTP; 31 Oct 2007 04:09:45 +0100 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+KgiF17BiK8rKj/cKQb1Jlkb4O23xdOrwxGY2AOF jSJkLKlhsmAv2A X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: <20071031014347.GB23274@coredump.intra.peff.net> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Jeff King wrote: > Anyway, to recap (my impression of) the discussion leading up to this: > - the cogito feature is useful > - the cogito syntax does not allow for multiple branches to be > specified Here somebody else than me (IIRC Junio) proposed this syntax: git clone --track [--track ] Nobody was interested enough to implement it. I then proposed delimiting with spaces, since they were _not part of a URL_: git clone " " but some people insisted on "#", which I pointed out (several times!) is a no go, and I actually provided reasons for that. > - one such syntax proposed was git://foo.tld/bar.git#blue,red > - one problem with that syntax is that comma is a valid character > in the branch name, and '#' is a valid character in the repo name > - one proposed solution was that '#' and ',' when used as data should > be URL-encoded > - flamefest begin > > So I think nobody disagrees that such a feature is useful; there is > disagreement about the syntax. Probably there is not enough need, too, and the discussion will peter out again, without anybody letting some code talk, and I will not make the mistake again of reviving this discussion. Promise. Ciao, Dscho