From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2026 14:47:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] object-name: accept @{p} as short for @{push}
Message-ID: <xmqqse2o17np.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <pull.2431.v2.git.git.1790927399813.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

"Harald Nordgren via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:

> From: Harald Nordgren <haraldnordgren@gmail.com>
>
> "git log @{p}" fails with "unknown revision", even though "@{u}"
> works for "@{upstream}".
>
> The "@{upstream}" notation came with its "@{u}" short form from the
> very beginning in 28fb84382b (Introduce <branch>@{upstream} notation,
> 2009-09-10). When "@{push}" was added in adfe5d0434 (sha1_name:
> implement @{push} shorthand, 2015-05-21), "@{p}" was held back to
> avoid confusion with a proposed "@{publish}" and talk of an "@{pull}".
> Neither of those was ever added.
>
> Add the missing "@{p}" for symmetry with "@{u}".
>
> Signed-off-by: Harald Nordgren <haraldnordgren@gmail.com>
> ---

Very well written.  Thanks.  Let me mark it for 'next'.