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

On Sat, 21 Mar 2009, Julian Phillips wrote:

On Sat, 21 Mar 2009, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:

quoted

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

quoted

 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...

Except that \ is the escape character for the shell too ... and that can get 
very confusing.  Haven't you ever spent too long trying to figure out how 
many \s you needed to get the command to work properly?

Having said that, the actual character used doesn't really matter.  That's 
just a what colour do you want your shed type detail ...

-- 
Julian

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