From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 20:38:40 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add new @ shortcut for HEAD
Message-ID: <CAMP44s044amTqdshNAm=EaT1UgEtKU6yLWAxsk3GwCcX+GQKxQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v1u9thyq9.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> But @ is not used just for reflogs, there's @{now}, @{-1}, @{upstream}.
>
> True.  @{now} is a reflog, @{-1} is also but @{u} is not.  It is a
> kitchen sink and you shouldn't have to have reflog on a branch in
> order to use @{upstream} (I didn't check---I wouldn't be surprised
> if the code for @{u} is buggy and barfed).

It shouldn't matter if @{u} is buggy or not (which I doubt), @ is
basically @{nothing}, or @{same-commit}, whether a reflog is present
or not doesn't really matter. HEAD@ -> HEAD, master@ -> master, and so
on.

-- 
Felipe Contreras