Re: Notation for current branch?

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 30, 2016, 18:19 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqoa4a3yrl.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAKkAvaxyEMjASzfGTqt73AtW7ag-YfqN1yVLEhFreiU-UVdnkA@mail.gmail.com>

ryenus <ryenus@gmail.com> writes:

> For now the best use case I can think of is with git-reflog, e.g.,
> the meaning of `git reflog HEAD` and `git reflog feature-branch`
> are quite different, even if I'm currently on the feature-branch,
> especially when I want to track the rebase histories (if any).

"git reflog" gives you the reflog of HEAD in numbered format (HEAD@{1}, HEAD@{2}, etc.), and "git reflog HEAD@{now}" is an interesting way to tell it "I want that same HEAD reflog but not in numbered but in timed format).

"git reflog @{0}" and "git reflog @{now}" give you the reflog of the current branch in these formats.