Re: [PATCH 3/3] prevent HEAD reflog to be interpreted as current branch reflog

["Lars Hjemli" <hjemli@gmail.com>]

On 2/2/07, Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Lars Hjemli wrote:
>
> > 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
>
> No it doesn't.
>
> HEAD is a moving pointer.  Sometimes it means the current branch,
> sometimes it doesn't.
>
> So HEAD is _NOT_ a synonym for "current branch" everywhere already.

All true. I guess I'm just used to thinking about HEAD as a pointer to
the current branch, and that was the reasoning behind my proposal.

But with a detached HEAD this is no longer true, and you end up being right :)

Sorry for the noise

--
larsh