From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:11:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] Teach @{-1} to git merge
Message-ID: <7v8wnuys44.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0902161140160.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> Hi,
>
> On Sun, 15 Feb 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>> 
>> > However, IMO there is a much worse issue lurking: people might want to 
>> > _know_ what "@{-2}" would expand to, _without_ switching branches.
>> 
>> "git branch --history" anyone?
>
> For a moment, you had me convinced it already exists, and I only 
> understood after "git grep history builtin-branch.c" came up empty.
>
> ;-)

$ git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name @{-24}

seem to work for this purpose ;-)