On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 02:00:25PM +0100, Bruce Stephens wrote: > It feels wrong to use "/" both in branch names and as separators in > selectors. No idea whether that actually causes any problem, it just > feels wrong.
Sure -- notice the bottom of http://venge.net/monotone/wiki/BranchNamingConventions where there's a whole discussion of how selector syntax might change depending on branch naming conventions :-). > I guess I'd feel happier if there were some defined quoting mechanism > that would permit a user interface to provide selectors and know > exactly what they were providing. That ought to be easy enough to do. Thanks to Matthew Nicholson, who apparently likes his branches /-separated, selectors have actually supported backslash quoting since 0.27 -- b:foo\/bar/a:baz kinda ugly, but works. -- Nathaniel -- /* Tell the world that we're going to be the grim * reaper of innocent orphaned children. */ -- Linux kernel 2.4.5, main.c _______________________________________________ Monotone-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monotone-devel
