From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 22:53:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add new @ shortcut for HEAD
Message-ID: <CAMP44s02QkL7QAuHHm_uT6B4QCzk9Mur0_w_D8t2A2u1go2F8A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vbo8vabet.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Since 'update-ref master' updates the 'master' ref, and not
>> 'refs/heads/master' (IOW; no parsing at all), I think it makes sense
>> that @{-1} is not parsed, and neither is @.
>
> That is a very valid point.
>
> What should "rev-parse --symbolic-full-name @" say?

Probably the same as 'rev-parse --symbolic-full-name HEAD' (it doesn't
with my patch).

-- 
Felipe Contreras