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Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:

> It can be useful to refer to commits in remotes based on their configured 
> relationship to local branches. For example, "git log HEAD^[push]..HEAD" 
> would, when pushing is set up, show what hasn't been pushed yet.

It's not like we will be adding 'push' objects and 'merge'
objects, so I think HEAD^{push} (curly brace, not bracket) is
good enough.

We need to see how useful this would be in practice; we would
not want to add new syntax without a set of convincing use
cases.  At this point, it still feels as if it is a feature that
was implemented only because it could, not because there was a
real need.