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

[Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>]

Junio C Hamano wrote:

> "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
> 
>> Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:
>>> 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 happen to really like the fact that HEAD@{...} is an alias for
>> <current_branch>@{...}.
> 
> It is usually easier to type.
> 
>> But now that HEAD will soon be getting its own reflog, I guess I
>> better relearn how to type <current_branch>.  :-)
> 
> One thing that is certain is that master@{...} will mean the
> same thing no matter what happens to Nico's series -- it talks
> about where the tip of that particular branch was at any recent
> time.  Right now HEAD@{...} happens to talk about "the current
> branch" (and only the current branch) -- Nico's patch would
> change the semantics when/if it is merged.

Perhaps we should use @{...} to refer to reflog for HEAD, or use
yet another special notation?

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Jakub Narebski
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