Re: [RFC PATCH] object-name: add @{upstreamhead} shorthand

From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com>
Date: Oct 20, 2024, 20:40 UTC
Message-ID: <1c056d39-950c-4965-89d6-85f0c2c1bccd@app.fastmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20241020202507.2596990-1-bence@ferdinandy.com>

Good evening

On Sun, Oct 20, 2024, at 22:24, Bence Ferdinandy wrote:

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> The HEAD of the remote is useful in many situations, but currently one
> would need to know the name of the remote to perform something like
> "git log origin/HEAD..", which makes writing remote agnostic aliases
> complicated. Introduce the new shorthand "@{upstreamhead}" which returns
> <remote>/HEAD for the same <remote> "@{upstream}" would yield.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bence Ferdinandy <bence@ferdinandy.com>
> ---
>
> Notes:
>     RFC v1: Testing and documentation is completely missing, I'll add those
>             in a v2 if people think the patch has merit.

Do you have some concrete examples? I’m not well versed in using remote HEAD.

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Kristoffer Haugsbakk