Re: [PATCH v3] Add new @ shortcut for HEAD

From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: May 1, 2013, 10:12 UTC
Message-ID: <CAPig+cSQeU8BaaPm7GfCUxtsVj1Ce31ygBLdkb5WN8o4aNMAow@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1367401888-21055-1-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com>

On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 5:51 AM, Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:

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> So HEAD@{0}~0^0 is too much to type, but we can remove '^0', and we can
> remove '~0', and we can remove 'HEAD', which leaves us with @{0}, but we
> can't remove '{0}'?
>
> This patch allows '@' to be the same as 'HEAD'.
>
> So now we can use 'git show @~1', and all that goody goodness.
>
> Until now '@' was a valid name, but it conflicts with this idea, so lets

s/lets/let's/  (contraction of "let us")

> make it invalid. Probably very few people, if any, used this name.
>
> Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>