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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: "Lars Hjemli" <hjemli@gmail.com>
Cc: "Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, "Junio C Hamano" <junkio@cox.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] prevent HEAD reflog to be interpreted as current branch reflog
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 14:21:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200702021421.22469.jnareb@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8c5c35580702020302g46f71fe3o24d7dc9490192cab@mail.gmail.com>

Lars Hjemli wrote:
> On 2/2/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>> On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Jakub Narebski wrote:
>>
>>> Perhaps we should use @{...} to refer to reflog for HEAD, or use yet
>>> another special notation?
>>
>> No.
>>
>> IMHO "bla@{yesterday}" should give you what "bla" pointed to, yesterday.
>> In that sense, the proposed reflog on "HEAD" makes perfect sense.
> 
> Since HEAD is a synonym for "current branch" everywhere else in git,
> while .git/logs/HEAD will be a log of detached HEAD (plus branch
> switches, I guess), I think the following makes perfect sense:
> 
>   "HEAD@{yesterday}" = current branch, yesterday
>   "@{yesterday}"     = detached head (no branch), yesterday

In the counterproposal, we have

   "HEAD@{yesterday}" = where HEAD was at, yesterday
   "@{yesterday}"     = current branch, yesterday

The side with patch wins (well, the one that can convince Junio).
But serously, that decision is work for maintainer.
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-02-02 13:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-01 17:33 [PATCH 3/3] prevent HEAD reflog to be interpreted as current branch reflog Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-01 19:13 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-01 20:58   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-01 21:29     ` Simon 'corecode' Schubert
2007-02-01 22:12       ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-01 22:17         ` Matthias Lederhofer
2007-02-01 22:29           ` [PATCH 4/3] provide a nice @{...} syntax to always mean the " Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-01 23:07             ` [PATCH 5/3], was " Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-01 23:21               ` [PATCH 6/3], was " Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-02  1:15             ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-01 21:46     ` [PATCH 3/3] prevent HEAD reflog to be interpreted as " Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-02 10:31     ` Jakub Narebski
2007-02-02 10:42       ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-02 11:02         ` Lars Hjemli
2007-02-02 13:02           ` Andy Parkins
2007-02-02 14:55             ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-02 15:13             ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-02 16:11               ` Andy Parkins
2007-02-02 16:35                 ` Simon 'corecode' Schubert
2007-02-02 17:19                 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-03 17:07                 ` Mark Wooding
2007-02-03 17:54                   ` Andy Parkins
2007-02-02 13:21           ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2007-02-02 13:47           ` Simon 'corecode' Schubert
2007-02-02 19:40             ` Simon 'corecode' Schubert
2007-02-02 14:52           ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-02 15:39             ` Lars Hjemli
2007-02-05 11:11           ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-05 11:21             ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-05 12:43               ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-05 23:11             ` Lars Hjemli
2007-02-02 13:08 ` Andy Parkins
2007-02-02 15:15   ` Rogan Dawes
2007-02-02 16:13     ` Andy Parkins
2007-02-03  3:04   ` Junio C Hamano

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