From: Jakub Narebski Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 13:21:21 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] prevent HEAD reflog to be interpreted as current branch reflog Message-ID: <200702021421.22469.jnareb@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <8c5c35580702020302g46f71fe3o24d7dc9490192cab@mail.gmail.com> Lars Hjemli wrote: > On 2/2/07, Johannes Schindelin wrote: >> On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Jakub Narebski wrote: >> >>> Perhaps we should use @{...} to refer to reflog for HEAD, or use yet >>> another special notation? >> >> No. >> >> IMHO "bla@{yesterday}" should give you what "bla" pointed to, yesterday. >> In that sense, the proposed reflog on "HEAD" makes perfect sense. > > Since HEAD is a synonym for "current branch" everywhere else in git, > while .git/logs/HEAD will be a log of detached HEAD (plus branch > switches, I guess), I think the following makes perfect sense: > > "HEAD@{yesterday}" = current branch, yesterday > "@{yesterday}" = detached head (no branch), yesterday In the counterproposal, we have "HEAD@{yesterday}" = where HEAD was at, yesterday "@{yesterday}" = current branch, yesterday The side with patch wins (well, the one that can convince Junio). But serously, that decision is work for maintainer. -- Jakub Narebski Poland