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

> Am 14.08.2013 20:05, schrieb Junio C Hamano:
>> 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?
>
> Stefano's use-case, where @/foo is turned into HEAD/foo, indicates a bug.
>
> In my opinion, the topic, which touches a central part of ref
> handling, was a bit hurried (and this report is a symptom of it), and
> I wouldn't mind seeing it reverted.