Re: [PATCH] refs.c: interpret @ as HEAD

From: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Date: Apr 30, 2013, 16:08 UTC
Message-ID: <517FEC9B.7020000@alum.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20130430150430.GA13398@lanh>

On 04/30/2013 05:04 PM, Duy Nguyen wrote:

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> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 03:01:22PM +0200, Thomas Rast wrote:
>> What annoys me more is that there's no way to say
>>
>>   git symbolic-ref U @{u}
>>
>> so that I can avoid that -- it's really clumsy to type on a Swiss German
>> keyboard.  We'd need some sort of ref-alias feature for that to work.
> 
> It's not hard to do. The below patch makes "." equivalent to HEAD and
> ".U" -> "@{u}". Refs are not supposed to have '.' at the beginning, so
> it's easy to figure somebody is using alias from what they send
> you. Supporting refalias.* config should be easy.

So what does "git log master...U" mean?

Michael

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