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Re: [PATCH 3/3] prevent HEAD reflog to be interpreted as current branch reflog

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APAndy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 2, 2007, 13:08 UTC
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On Thursday 2007 February 01 17:33, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
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> The work in progress to enable separate reflog for HEAD will make it
> independent from reflog of any branch HEAD might be pointing to. In
> the mean time disallow HEAD@{...} until that work is completed. Otherwise
> people might get used to the current behavior which makes HEAD@{...} an
> alias for <current_branch>@{...} which won't be the case later.

I hadn't really appreciated the implications of all this HEAD reflog stuff until now.

Please, please, HEAD@{} should /always/ be an alias for <current_branch>@{}.

There is one special case: when head is detached, <current_branch> would then be the "unnamed branch" for reflog purposes; personally I'd like that stored in .git/logs/DETACHED_HEAD or similar - in particular not in .git/logs/HEAD.

Andy
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Message 32 of 35 in “prevent HEAD reflog to be interpreted as current branch reflog”
  1. 3/3 prevent HEAD reflog to be interpreted as current branch reflogNicolas Pitre, Feb 1, 2007
  2. Shawn O. PearceFeb 1, 2007
  3. Junio C HamanoFeb 1, 2007
  4. Simon 'corecode' SchubertFeb 1, 2007
  5. Nicolas PitreFeb 1, 2007
  6. Matthias LederhoferFeb 1, 2007
  7. 4/3 provide a nice @{...} syntax to always mean the current branch reflogNicolas Pitre, Feb 1, 2007
  8. 5/3 , was Re: [PATCH 4/3] provide a nice @{...} syntax to always mean the current branch reflogJohannes Schindelin, Feb 1, 2007
  9. 6/3 , was Re: [PATCH 5/3], was Re: [PATCH 4/3] provide a nice @{...} syntax to always mean the current branch reflogJohannes Schindelin, Feb 1, 2007
  10. Junio C HamanoFeb 2, 2007
  11. Nicolas PitreFeb 1, 2007
  12. Jakub NarebskiFeb 2, 2007
  13. Johannes SchindelinFeb 2, 2007
  14. Lars HjemliFeb 2, 2007
  15. Andy ParkinsFeb 2, 2007
  16. Nicolas PitreFeb 2, 2007
  17. Nicolas PitreFeb 2, 2007
  18. Andy ParkinsFeb 2, 2007
  19. Simon 'corecode' SchubertFeb 2, 2007
  20. Nicolas PitreFeb 2, 2007
  21. Mark WoodingFeb 3, 2007
  22. Andy ParkinsFeb 3, 2007
  23. Jakub NarebskiFeb 2, 2007
  24. Simon 'corecode' SchubertFeb 2, 2007
  25. Simon 'corecode' SchubertFeb 2, 2007
  26. Nicolas PitreFeb 2, 2007
  27. Lars HjemliFeb 2, 2007
  28. Johannes SchindelinFeb 5, 2007
  29. Shawn O. PearceFeb 5, 2007
  30. Johannes SchindelinFeb 5, 2007
  31. Lars HjemliFeb 5, 2007
  32. Andy ParkinsFeb 2, 2007
  33. Rogan DawesFeb 2, 2007
  34. Andy ParkinsFeb 2, 2007
  35. Junio C HamanoFeb 3, 2007

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