Re: tracking branch for a rebase

Jeff King venit, vidit, dixit 07.09.2009 10:44:

On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 01:25:38AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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@{^}

This _could_ work, although it is rather cryptic.

But an identifier composed entirely of punctuation? It might help
git catch on with perl programmers. ;)

Right, that was the true agenda hidden only partially behind the plain
association between ^ and up ;)

Michael (having exactly zero perl fu)

P.S.: @ may not be reserved, and neither @^, but 1.7 should allow us to
reserve some symbols/combinations with a "low damage probability".
People may have a@b refnames (git-svn users for sure), but @^?