Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: thought on hierarchical branches

[Nathaniel Smith]

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

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