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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] prevent HEAD reflog to be interpreted as current branch reflog
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 14:21:21 +0100
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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