From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add new @ shortcut for HEAD
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:16:39 +0700
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On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Ramkumar Ramachandra
<artagnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> Michael Haggerty wrote:
>>     git symbolic-ref -m "Create @ alias for HEAD" @ HEAD
>
> I find this very interesting.  I already have a symbolic ref H
> pointing to HEAD, but it has some quirks: H@{u} complains that H is an
> invalid branch for example.  When I create the symbolic-ref @, I'm not
> _exactly_ creating a synonym for HEAD: @{u} works, not @@{u}.

Habits aside, why do you do H@{u} when @{u} is enough (and shorter)?
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Duy