rfc: remove "revision specs"

Matthew Hannigan mlh at zip.com.au
Tue Aug 30 12:17:37 BST 2005


On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 02:47:18PM +0800, Lalo Martins wrote:
> Now I'm thinking, if you don't actually expect people to *type* this,
> but rather, you support it for the sake of tools like pqm and for
> uniform python api - then I'd go with the semicolon, precisely *because*
> it's bad shell - therefore it's less likely to be a legitimate filename.
>  (It's even illegal on windows, isn't it?)

Eeek!

Using semicolon means it would succeed in doing something _other_
than you intended, as rev=45 is silently accepted by the shell.


Matt




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