Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
> A potential answer here is to say that if you're dealing with a pathname
> which looks like path@rev, or a variant pathname which could be
> anything, stick "@HEAD" (or maybe just "@") at the end, and it's
> guaranteed to work.
>
> It's not the world's most satisfying answer, because it's extra gunk you
> have to put in commands or URLs just to avoid a potential corner case.
> But it's an option.
Heh, that's a cute solution.
No matter what we choose, we're going to have to come up with a
quoting or escaping mechanism of some sort. I haven't been able to
think of a character that combines intuitive-rememberableness with
unlikely-to-appear-at-end-of-path as well as "@" (Philip, remember
that the @-sign has to appear at the end of your filename and be
followed only by numbers, for it to be ambiguous. How many files like
that do you have?)
So although I certainly understand Philip's concerns, I'm still
leaning toward "@".
Will wait for more commentary (and/or a gotcha from Philip) before
calling for a vote, though.
-K
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