Re: [PATCH 3/3] prevent HEAD reflog to be interpreted as current branch reflog

On Thursday 2007 February 01 17:33, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

The work in progress to enable separate reflog for HEAD will make it
independent from reflog of any branch HEAD might be pointing to. In
the mean time disallow HEAD@{...} until that work is completed. Otherwise
people might get used to the current behavior which makes HEAD@{...} an
alias for <current_branch>@{...} which won't be the case later.

I hadn't really appreciated the implications of all this HEAD reflog stuff 
until now.

Please, please, HEAD@{} should /always/ be an alias for <current_branch>@{}.

There is one special case:  when head is detached, <current_branch> would then 
be the "unnamed branch" for reflog purposes; personally I'd like that stored 
in .git/logs/DETACHED_HEAD or similar - in particular not in .git/logs/HEAD.



Andy

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