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From: "Lars Hjemli" <hjemli@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] prevent HEAD reflog to be interpreted as current branch reflog
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 12:02:24 +0100
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On 2/2/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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


Just my 2c

--
larsh