From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:04:05 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add new @ shortcut for HEAD
Message-ID: <CALkWK0kXSugXTKWy7_6WT_3UnwVhzyCJNR=QS-4K6vWrU61m4w@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v1u9rewc1.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> How else would you explain why "rev-parse --symbolic-full-name @"
> does not make sense

It does make sense.  (Try it with my patch) [*1*]

> and "update-ref @" does not update HEAD?

Why should update-ref update HEAD?  I'm asking it to update the
symbolic-ref override .git/@.

[Footnote]

*1* I made a mistake in the commit message when I said that git
symbolic-ref @ HEAD had the exact same effect.