Re: [PATCH] refspec: make @ a valid refspec

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 4, 2020, 22:20 UTC
Message-ID: <CAMP44s33jhx+5m_LmaVi58n0roJH-ZD9z0nU6M5d6_Kd+i=5Dw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAMP44s3f_cO61YVjvwsiswKQRESznOFn7KTshgv06a=zVRPLug@mail.gmail.com>

Hello,

On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 6:09 PM Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 4:45 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> > Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:

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> > > Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
> >
> > Using "@" is rather "illogical" than "ugly", and at that point it is
> > not so subjective.
>
> I disagree.

This is not an attempt to reignite the discussion, but just something that might be of interest.

I created a poll [1] in reddit's r/git: Do you know @ is a shortcut for HEAD?

403 people gave a useful response. Of those; 74% didn't know such a shortcut existed, 80% liked this shortcut.

But more importantly: 59% did like the shortcut, but didn't know it existed. That is: of the people that liked the shortcut; 74% didn't know it existed.

This tells us something: putting personal preferences aside; the Git project doesn't seem to be doing a great job of advertising its features. Features a good chunk--if not the overwhelming majority--of users might like.

Other things of interest in the comments: one user didn't even know what HEAD was, another used "head" (lowercase) (macOS user), and lastly; the second most voted comment did take a shot at Git's known unintuitiveness.

That's it. Just putting it here.

Cheers.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/git/comments/k15cqm/do_you_know_is_a_shortcut_for_head/

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Felipe Contreras