From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:26:05 GMT
Subject: Re: default behaviour for `gitmerge` (no arguments)
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.1001131024420.3043@intel-tinevez-2-302>
In-Reply-To: <7vwrzmqypn.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> I wondered why it doesn't hook into interpret_branch_name(), and instead 
> adds itself to the static substitute_branch_name(); it forbids the use 
> of the syntax from by callers of strbuf_branchname().

I _think_ it was to allow something like

	git log -g @{u}

but frankly, this is so long ago, I do not remember, I reconstructed this 
reasoning as being the most likely.

Ciao,
Dscho