D4041: revisions: allow "x123" to refer to nodeid prefix "123"

Yuya Nishihara yuya at tcha.org
Sat Aug 4 02:41:15 EDT 2018


>   Note that we attempt to resolve symbols as nodeid prefixes after we've
>   exhausted all other posibilities, so this is a backwards compatible
>   change (only queries that would previously fail may now succeed).
>   
>   I've still hidden this feature behind an experiemntal config option so
>   we can roll it back if needed.

I guess nobody would love this syntax, but I have no alternative idea.
Queued this as it is an experimental feature.


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