Re: [PATCH v3] Add new @ shortcut for HEAD

On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 5:59 PM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

Felipe Contreras [off-list ref] writes:

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Exactly, because ref@something is used for operations on a ref. If
'ref' is missing, it only makes sense to use HEAD (or something like
that), and if 'something' is missing, it only makes sense to make it a
no-op, but since we don't want to forbid refs with names like
'master@'. That's the reason why '@' makes sense, and not any other
character.

Yes.  My typo made it look as if I meant to say '@' was a bad
choice, but we are in agreement that '@' is better than any other
random choice of single punctuation letter.

Yeah, we agree.

It is just the "strip this, strip that" explanation, which is not
technically correct, does _not_ have to be our justification for
picking '@' as a short-hand for HEAD.

The point is that it follows from @something -> @.

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Felipe Contreras