From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 01 May 2013 19:50:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] remote.c: teach branch_get() to treat symrefs other than HEAD
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Felipe Contreras wrote:
> As I said, the @@{u} thing can be fixed through other ways.

It's not just @@{u}.  I can have lots of custom symbolic refs working
properly; I might choose D for my deleted-reflogs, M for master and so
on.

    $ git log M..

The point is that my solution solves the problem in the more general case.

> Moreover, "HEAD" is still a special case in remote.c::branch_get()
> that you just modified.

It's not.  It's just a quick shortcut for the common case because
read_config() already sets it up.