Re: [FIXED PATCH] Make rebase save ORIG_HEAD if changing current branch

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Jul 8, 2008, 04:26 UTC
Message-ID: <20080708042607.GC7186@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <F0AD23BC-FA9A-4593-8942-228C428B661E@silverinsanity.com>

On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 11:03:46AM -0400, Brian Gernhardt wrote:

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> I personally expected @{1} to be identical to HEAD@{1}.  Since omitting a 
> ref usually refers to HEAD, why shouldn't omitting it when referring to 
> the reflogs mean the HEAD log?  The definition of @{1} is useful since 
> there's no other easy way to get "current branch's reflog", but I think 
> it's non-obvious.  (Since HEAD@{1} is something completely different, I 
> think the only other way to refer to @{1} is $(git symbolic-ref)@{1}.)

FYI, there was much discussion about this exact point:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/38379

(I don't know that it has that much bearing on the current discussion, but since I went to the trouble of digging it up, I thought you might find it useful).

-Peff