Re: [PATCH 2/3] Handle branch names with slashes

Karl,

On 15/05/06, Karl Hasselström [off-list ref] wrote:

Teach stgit to handle branch names with slashes in them; that is,
branches living in a subdirectory of .git/refs/heads.

Thanks for the patches. I'll add them, probably tomorrow evening as
I'm busy today.

I had to change the patch@branch/top command-line syntax to
patch@branch#top, in order to get sane parsing. The /top variant is
still available for repositories that have no slashy branches; it is
disabled as soon as there exists at least one subdirectory of
refs/heads. Preferably, this compatibility hack can be killed some
time in the future.

There is one problem with killing "/" entirely (or maybe we could use
other character than "#"). I tend to write quite often "stg diff -r
/bottom" to see how the whole patch looks like before refreshing. With
"#", the shell ignores "#bottom" as being a comment.

Otherwise, I'm OK with changing "/" with something else or just
keeping both (though I prefer to have a singe way of specifying it).
It looks like ^ and ~ are already used by GIT. It leaves us with % and
!. Do you have any preference? The exclamation mark looks OK to me.

-- 
Catalin