From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:18:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] Teach @{-1} to git merge
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0902261118140.6258@intel-tinevez-2-302>
In-Reply-To: <7v8wnuys44.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > On Sun, 15 Feb 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >
> >> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> >> 
> >> > However, IMO there is a much worse issue lurking: people might want 
> >> > to _know_ what "@{-2}" would expand to, _without_ switching 
> >> > branches.
> >> 
> >> "git branch --history" anyone?
> >
> > For a moment, you had me convinced it already exists, and I only 
> > understood after "git grep history builtin-branch.c" came up empty.
> >
> > ;-)
> 
> $ git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name @{-24}
> 
> seem to work for this purpose ;-)

AFAIR I mentioned that command, together with a reminder that teaching 
regular Git users plumbing commands is harmful.

Ciao,
Dscho