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Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:

> In other words: the sequence "@" is short for "HEAD".

That is saying a very different thing.  master@{4.days} is not short
for masterHEAD{4.days}.

> Isn't that
> _exactly_ what I implemented in my two-liner?

I dunno.  

As design and semantics look still fuzzy (the primary one I am not
sure about is if @ is a ref or just a revision), even though the
desire to have _something_ seem to be popular, I am not particulary
interested in looking at an alternative patch. I want to see the
right semantics first.