Re: [PATCH] Add new @ shortcut for HEAD

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 30, 2013, 18:18 UTC
Message-ID: <CAMP44s22Gz=fjregUE37r-V7R+eC_vLhdkefTybEpPDm680NBQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20130430175635.GA1972@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 12:47:57PM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>
>> > We should make sure that the code rejects "git update-ref @ foo"
>> > because that is "git update-ref @{0} ref", by the way.  I didn't
>> > check with Felipe's patch.
>>
>> Hmm, with or without my patch 'git update @ foo' does nothing, same
>> with 'git update blah foo'. No error, no non-zero exit code, just
>> doesn't do anything.
>
> Are you sure?
>
>   $ git version
>   git version 1.8.2
>
>   $ git update-ref @ foo
>   fatal: foo: not a valid SHA1
>
>   $ git update-ref @ origin/master
>   $ echo $?
>   0
>   $ cat .git/@
>   89740333e8d398f1da701e9023675321bbb9a85b

Right. I don't know why I expected it to show in 'git show-ref'.

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Felipe Contreras