From: Mathieu Lemoine <mathieu@mlemoine.name>
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2014 15:05:22 GMT
Subject: [BUG] git symbolic-ref does not recognize @ as the shortcut for HEAD
Message-ID: <CAOBEgJjmoXEDVa4L5LbAGMYR7_+NCf2tDSveieZxtU4bfWyzDw@mail.gmail.com>

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.