From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:56:35 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add new @ shortcut for HEAD
Message-ID: <20130430175635.GA1972@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAMP44s0PcB7nu_67p=hfMy4Kb2iYTSp5ZT6y2Gn24OAtDzR_sw@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 12:47:57PM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote:

> > We should make sure that the code rejects "git update-ref @ foo"
> > because that is "git update-ref @{0} ref", by the way.  I didn't
> > check with Felipe's patch.
> 
> Hmm, with or without my patch 'git update @ foo' does nothing, same
> with 'git update blah foo'. No error, no non-zero exit code, just
> doesn't do anything.

Are you sure?

  $ git version
  git version 1.8.2

  $ git update-ref @ foo
  fatal: foo: not a valid SHA1

  $ git update-ref @ origin/master
  $ echo $?
  0
  $ cat .git/@
  89740333e8d398f1da701e9023675321bbb9a85b

-Peff