From: Jonathan Nieder Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:53:04 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add new @ shortcut for HEAD Message-ID: <20130430005304.GG24467@google.com> In-Reply-To: <7vsj29eysv.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Junio C Hamano wrote: > Felipe Contreras writes: >> Never-mind, now I see the difference, still, I don't think it's >> relevant for this patch. > > I don't either. With the precedence of @{u}, @ does not need to have > anything to do with a reflog. It is just a random letter that casts > a magic spell. I thought the convention was "^{...} is for operators that act on objects, @{...} for operators that act on refs or symrefs". Which works fine here.