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

Andy Parkins wrote:

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

quoted

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

However, if HEAD@{} means what was HEAD pointing at at the indicated 
time, and @{} means "current branch", then we need no exceptions, and 
the common case is shorter.

Rogan