Re: [PATCH] Add new @ shortcut for HEAD
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Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
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- Apr 30, 2013, 05:54 UTC
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On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 2:35 AM, Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
> So we can type '@' instead of 'HEAD@', or rather 'HEAD'. So now we can > use 'git show @~1', and all that goody goodness.
I like this. I haven't spent a lot of time on thinking about ambiguation. But I think we're safe there. '@' is not overloaded much like ':', '^' or '~'.
> This patch allows 'HEAD@' to be the same as 'HEAD@{0}', and similarly with
> 'master@'.I'm a bit reluctant to this. It looks like incomplete syntax to me as '@' has always been followed by '{'. Can we have the lone '@' candy but reject master@ and HEAD@? There's no actual gain in writing master@ vs master@{0}.
> +'@':: > + '@' alone is a shortcut for 'HEAD' > +
And this does not explain about HEAD@ or master@. But because I prefer the candy part only. This documentation part looks good :) -- Duy