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From: Rogan Dawes <discard@dawes.za.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] prevent HEAD reflog to be interpreted as current
 branch reflog
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 17:15:39 +0200
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Andy Parkins wrote:
> On Thursday 2007 February 01 17:33, Nicolas Pitre 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 hadn't really appreciated the implications of all this HEAD reflog stuff 
> until now.
> 
> Please, please, HEAD@{} should /always/ be an alias for <current_branch>@{}.
> 
> There is one special case:  when head is detached, <current_branch> would then 
> be the "unnamed branch" for reflog purposes; personally I'd like that stored 
> in .git/logs/DETACHED_HEAD or similar - in particular not in .git/logs/HEAD.
> 
> Andy
> 

However, if HEAD@{} means what was HEAD pointing at at the indicated 
time, and @{} means "current branch", then we need no exceptions, and 
the common case is shorter.

Rogan