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From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Another use of "@"?
Date: Sat, 4 May 2013 10:48:23 +0700
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On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 5:09 AM, Matthieu Moy
> <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:
>> The A/@ could make sense, but I'm wondering whether we're taking the
>> direction of implementing some kind of Brainfuck dialect in Git revision
>> specifiers. I'm not sure we want to add more special characters here and
>> there with subtly different meanings (@ = HEAD, @{1} = HEAD@{1}, A/@ =
>> A/$(git symbolic-ref --short HEAD)).
>
> Another subtle overloading of @ that might be desirable (althought
> might be achievable another way). "git log -g"  is equal to "git log
> -g HEAD" but there is no easy way (that I know of) to do "git log -g
> $(git symbolic-ref HEAD)". "@" could fill the inconvenient spot here,
> I think. Alias is no good because I won't be able to add extra
> options.

I wouldn't mind typing <ref>@{link} that does "git symbolic-ref
<ref>", though. Because ref is optional, "git log -g @{link}" is not
bad. "link" is probably not a good name for this.
--
Duy