From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:15:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] refs.c: interpret @ as HEAD
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Duy Nguyen wrote:
> We could put still ref aliases
> into the same ref namespace, with lower precedence that actual refs,
> so no new syntax required.

Actually, ref-alises are the right way to solve the problem.
Recursive symref peeling is a bad idea: I can't take my aliases with
me, and they complicate unnecessarily.

Any thoughts on how to implement it?  Should it go as deep as
resolve_ref_unsafe()?