Re: [PATCH 3/3] prevent HEAD reflog to be interpreted as current branch reflog

From: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 5, 2007, 23:11 UTC
Message-ID: <8c5c35580702051511m6d31973bw1f19832afe583487@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702051208070.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

On 2/5/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Lars Hjemli wrote:
>
> > I think the following makes perfect sense:
> >
> >  "HEAD@{yesterday}" = current branch, yesterday
> >  "@{yesterday}"     = detached head (no branch), yesterday
>
> Okay, so you say "HEAD@{yesterday}" does _not_ give you what HEAD pointed
> to yesterday, but "@{yesterday}" does?
>
> Instead "HEAD@{yesterday}" looks up what HEAD points to _now_, and _then_
> goes back to yesterday, finding out what that particular branch pointed to
> then, _regardless_ what HEAD was then?
>
> Oh my, that's convoluted.
>

Well, luckily Nicolas got me thinking straight again:

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/38507

-- 
larsh