Re: [PATCH 1/5] t1508 (at-combinations): more tests; document failures

From: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Date: May 4, 2013, 08:10 UTC
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On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Felipe Contreras wrote:
>> We probably should fix those, but that is orthogonal to the '@' shortcut.
>>
>> We can have the '@' shortcut *today*, with minimal changes to the code
>> and the documentation, in a limited and understood scope, with no
>> surprises.
>>
>> We can fix the symbolic ref stuff slowly, step by step, no need to
>> delay the '@' shortcut for that.
>
> Agreed.

If only we didn't care about windows then we could have this feature today:

    cd .git
    ln -s HEAD @

...and everything works, in the most natural way. Has anyone else tweaked their repo this way?

Is an alternative implementation to change the template repo to ship with a symlink?

For windows, perhaps we can use this new code behind an #ifdef?

Anyways, it's just a crazy idea. I very much like this feature, and in a tweaked repo @{0}{1} actually works.

Is there no way to tweak this at some really low level to trick git into believing the link exists (even when it doesn't)?

I guess that's what these patches do, but the limitations seem unfortunate. -- David