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From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
To: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>,
	Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>,
	Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add new @ shortcut for HEAD
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:40:02 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALkWK0mftWaC0Mi6QYm+iPk8bMgmS05--nevVKdOeOM9sPyg5w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8C34vN7SB62-+Z3BNZeroTB_vm-n-NMhFRbAuBPQZFKcA@mail.gmail.com>

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

I don't.  In the @{} spec, HEAD is implicit.  My initial itch was that
HEAD is not implicit in the ~<n> spec, and started off by thinking how
we could make HEAD implicit specifically for that case [1].  Since
then, we've realized that it's probably easier (and more useful) to
have a synonym for HEAD that works in all specs.  As a side effect,
master..@ will work too.  I was looking into the repercussions of
this, and noticed that Michael's @ symref is not equivalent to my H
symref.  I previously thought that all symrefs would behave in exactly
the same manner, but @ clearly seems to be a special case: I was
merely pointing this out with an example.

[1]: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/222343

  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-30 11:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-29 19:35 [PATCH] Add new @ shortcut for HEAD Felipe Contreras
2013-04-29 19:43 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-04-29 20:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-29 20:14   ` Felipe Contreras
2013-04-29 20:24     ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-29 20:38       ` Felipe Contreras
2013-04-29 21:01         ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-29 20:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-29 20:23   ` Felipe Contreras
2013-04-29 21:36     ` Felipe Contreras
2013-04-29 22:50       ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-30  0:53         ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-04-30 17:54           ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-30 18:17             ` Felipe Contreras
2013-04-29 22:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-29 22:49   ` Felipe Contreras
2013-04-29 23:06     ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-29 23:10       ` Felipe Contreras
2013-04-30  5:54 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-04-30  6:10   ` Felipe Contreras
2013-04-30  6:17     ` Duy Nguyen
2013-04-30  6:20       ` Felipe Contreras
2013-04-30  6:30     ` Duy Nguyen
2013-04-30  7:55       ` Felipe Contreras
2013-04-30  7:09   ` Michael Haggerty
2013-04-30  7:35     ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-04-30 10:16       ` Duy Nguyen
2013-04-30 11:10         ` Ramkumar Ramachandra [this message]
2013-04-30 18:54       ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-04-30 10:12     ` Duy Nguyen
2013-04-30 17:22   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-30 17:37     ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-04-30 17:40     ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-04-30 17:56       ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-30 18:04         ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-04-30 18:20       ` Felipe Contreras
2013-04-30 18:45         ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-04-30 22:08           ` Felipe Contreras
2013-04-30 17:47     ` Felipe Contreras
2013-04-30 17:56       ` Jeff King
2013-04-30 18:18         ` Felipe Contreras
2013-04-30 19:42     ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-30 19:53       ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-04-30 20:05         ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-30 20:37           ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-04-30 19:59       ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-30 22:17       ` Felipe Contreras
2013-04-30 22:27         ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-30 22:38           ` Felipe Contreras
2013-04-30 22:42             ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-30 22:53               ` Felipe Contreras
2013-04-30 23:00                 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-04-30 23:19                   ` Felipe Contreras
2013-04-30 23:24                     ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-30  6:07 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-04-30  6:11   ` Felipe Contreras

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