Re: New special handing of '@' character broke my use case

> Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> My problems is that some new automagical interpretation of the bare
>> @' character (introduced after 1.8.3) has destroyed my use case:
>> ...
>> I don't want to ask you to revert this new behaviour, but I'd like to
>> at least have an option to disable it.
>
> I do not think it is simply not worth the complexity to selectively
> disable it.  If it is a regression, it is much better to simply
> revert, if we can (it appears that cdfd9483 (Add new @ shortcut for
> HEAD, 2013-05-07) can be reverted without any textual context, but
> there may already be new stuff that depends on the "@").
>
> For the upcoming release, I am very much tempted to revert it and
> let the topic retried, by people who really want the "let's save
> four keystrokes and replace it with @ aka Shift-<something>",
> without hurting your use case (and others), after the upcoming
> release.
>
> What do others think?