Re: [PATCH v4] Introduce %<branch> as shortcut to the tracked branch

On Saturday, 21 March 2009 0:08:42 Julian Phillips wrote:

How about adding a generic escape hatch, that would cover this and
future extensions?

Let a ref that starts with a single quote be taken as given and not
processed.  You have to escape it to get it past the shell, but that makes
it rather unlikely that anyone has used a name that starts with a quote -
and if they have you can still use this mechanism to rename it.

To me the most obvious escape sequence would be \x for disabling whatever 
special meaning x has (for non-alphabetic x). With quoting you likely 
eventually end up needing  \' in some cases anyway...

Andreas