From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 14:55:26 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] prevent HEAD reflog to be interpreted as current branch reflog
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702020953190.3021@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <200702021302.10567.andyparkins@gmail.com>

On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Andy Parkins wrote:

> On Friday 2007 February 02 11:02, Lars Hjemli wrote:
> 
> >   "HEAD@{yesterday}" = current branch, yesterday
> >   "@{yesterday}"     = detached head (no branch), yesterday
> 
> I'd vote for this too.  It's the only logically consistent view.

No it is not.

> HEAD is a symbolic reference, it's a way of referring to a real branch by 
> another name.  HEAD@{} should be the same as branch@{} to be consistent.

HEAD is _NOT_ a symbolic reference.  It _may_ happen to be a symbolic 
reference, but it _may_ happen to not be.

And please see my previous email for more arguments.


Nicolas