From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:23:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] refs.c: interpret @ as HEAD
Message-ID: <CALkWK0kzjg+CPw8hq6ZAZxqVGdp7cf6HN-XHFCjbkNk9O=M5CA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vehdsf19m.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "git update-ref HEAD $commit" is accepted.  If @ is a synonym for
> HEAD, "git update-ref @ $commit" should work exactly the same way,
> but is it desirable?

>  Would we have $GIT_DIR/@ as the result?  How
> about "git symbolic-ref"?

Yes, it is a valid refname that can be overridden [*1*].

> Would @@{4} and HEAD@{4} be the same?

No.  Why should they?

[Footnotes]

*1*: In the current implementation, git update-ref fails.