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[BUG] git symbolic-ref does not recognize @ as the shortcut for HEAD

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MLMathieu Lemoine <mathieu@mlemoine.name>
Date
Jan 9, 2014, 15:05 UTC
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Hello,

In https://raw.github.com/git/git/master/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.txt is mentioned:

 * Instead of typing four capital letters "HEAD", you can say "@" now,
e.g. "git log @".

However, `git symbolic-ref @` gives "fatal: No such ref: @", while `git symbolic-ref @` gives "refs/heads/master".

I looked around in the archive and #git, but nobody seemed to be aware of the behaviour.

I wonder if it's on purpose given the low level of symbolic-ref or if it's a bug.

Mathieu Lemoine.
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