From: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
To: Nikola Milekic <nikolamilekic@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Differences between git show HEAD and git show head
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2018 15:23:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <875zz4l0kv.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACU07Yt5vh36tHcHxV-b_5MNLc-RzqGQ7=nkJq-DTqNgmYP+wA@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Sep 17 2018, Nikola Milekic wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Windows, when using multiple workspaces and git 2.19.0.windows.1,
> 'git show HEAD' and 'git show head' return different results when
> executed from a secondary workspace (the one without the .git
> directory).
>
> 'git show HEAD' shows the HEAD of the current workspace, while git
> show head shows the HEAD of the main workspace (the one with the .git
> directory). I find this to be highly misleading, especially for users
> like myself who are not used to typing HEAD in all caps. Is this
> indented behavior or a bug?
This is an outstanding bug in git that's tricky to solve (maybe you're
interested!), here's a recent discussion about it:
https://public-inbox.org/git/87ziclb2pa.fsf@gmail.com/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-17 13:23 UTC|newest]
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2018-09-17 11:22 Differences between git show HEAD and git show head Nikola Milekic
2018-09-17 13:23 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [this message]
2018-09-17 13:33 ` Nikola Milekic
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