From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:50:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] refs.c: interpret @ as HEAD
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Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
> So, without the .git/@, @@{1} will complain that
> the reflog only has 1 entry (in other words, it is "correct" but not
> useful).

Even better idea.  When not overridden, @@{<n>} will show the reflog
for HEAD.  To the user, it looks like @ is behaving like a true ref by
keeping a reflog, but we're just cheating.