From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 07:35:52 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add new @ shortcut for HEAD
Message-ID: <CALkWK0naGx6Vrb3_iZbXefQqmwOhaTSRXxBT6K-cheiUwr3Ptw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <517F6E40.1040606@alum.mit.edu>

Michael Haggerty wrote:
>     git symbolic-ref -m "Create @ alias for HEAD" @ HEAD

I find this very interesting.  I already have a symbolic ref H
pointing to HEAD, but it has some quirks: H@{u} complains that H is an
invalid branch for example.  When I create the symbolic-ref @, I'm not
_exactly_ creating a synonym for HEAD: @{u} works, not @@{u}.

Many people are confused by this patch (reflog? HEAD@ versus master@?
incomplete due to { omission?), and I'm not sure HEAD@ or master@ are
even useful.  This confusion can be avoided completely if the patch
has the exact same effect as symbolic-ref'ing @ to HEAD.