Re: New special handing of '@' character broke my use case

2013-08-15 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 08/14/2013 09:57 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: Johannes Sixt j...@kdbg.org writes: [SNIP] Stefano's use-case, where @/foo is turned into HEAD/foo, indicates a bug. In my opinion, the topic, which touches a central part of ref handling, was a bit hurried (and this report is a symptom of

New special handing of '@' character broke my use case

2013-08-14 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hello list. In the last year or so, I developed a personal idiom of using a naming scheme of @/BRANCH-NAME/NUMto save the older versions of branches I'm going to rebase (interactively or not). Here is an idealized example of my use case: $ git co --help `git co' is aliased to `checkout'

Re: New special handing of '@' character broke my use case

2013-08-14 Thread Junio C Hamano
Stefano Lattarini stefano.lattar...@gmail.com writes: My problems is that some new automagical interpretation of the bare @' character (introduced after 1.8.3) has destroyed my use case: ... I don't want to ask you to revert this new behaviour, but I'd like to at least have an option to

Re: New special handing of '@' character broke my use case

2013-08-14 Thread Junio C Hamano
Stefano Lattarini stefano.lattar...@gmail.com writes: ... But in that case, I'd like some assurance that such a character is not going to be turned into a magical character some time in the future ;-) I'd say that any special letter could be considered a fair game by the next person who

Re: New special handing of '@' character broke my use case

2013-08-14 Thread Stefano Lattarini
[re-sending to the list, sorry Junio for the duplicate mail] On 08/14/2013 07:05 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: Stefano Lattarini stefano.lattar...@gmail.com writes: My problems is that some new automagical interpretation of the bare @' character (introduced after 1.8.3) has destroyed my use

Re: New special handing of '@' character broke my use case

2013-08-14 Thread Johannes Sixt
Am 14.08.2013 20:05, schrieb Junio C Hamano: Stefano Lattarini stefano.lattar...@gmail.com writes: My problems is that some new automagical interpretation of the bare @' character (introduced after 1.8.3) has destroyed my use case: ... I don't want to ask you to revert this new behaviour, but

Re: New special handing of '@' character broke my use case

2013-08-14 Thread Junio C Hamano
Johannes Sixt j...@kdbg.org writes: Am 14.08.2013 20:05, schrieb Junio C Hamano: Stefano Lattarini stefano.lattar...@gmail.com writes: My problems is that some new automagical interpretation of the bare @' character (introduced after 1.8.3) has destroyed my use case: ... I don't want to