Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] Teach @{-1} to git merge

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> Hi,
>
> On Sun, 15 Feb 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>> 
>> > However, IMO there is a much worse issue lurking: people might want to 
>> > _know_ what "@{-2}" would expand to, _without_ switching branches.
>> 
>> "git branch --history" anyone?
>
> For a moment, you had me convinced it already exists, and I only 
> understood after "git grep history builtin-branch.c" came up empty.
>
> ;-)

$ git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name @{-24}

seem to work for this purpose ;-)