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

Lars Hjemli wrote:

On 2/2/07, Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Jakub Narebski wrote:

quoted

Perhaps we should use @{...} to refer to reflog for HEAD, or use yet
another special notation?

No.

IMHO "bla@{yesterday}" should give you what "bla" pointed to, yesterday.
In that sense, the proposed reflog on "HEAD" makes perfect sense.

Since HEAD is a synonym for "current branch" everywhere else in git,
while .git/logs/HEAD will be a log of detached HEAD (plus branch
switches, I guess), I think the following makes perfect sense:

  "HEAD@{yesterday}" = current branch, yesterday
  "@{yesterday}"     = detached head (no branch), yesterday

In the counterproposal, we have

   "HEAD@{yesterday}" = where HEAD was at, yesterday
   "@{yesterday}"     = current branch, yesterday

The side with patch wins (well, the one that can convince Junio).
But serously, that decision is work for maintainer.
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Jakub Narebski
Poland