From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Sunshine Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Add new @ shortcut for HEAD Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 06:12:05 -0400 Message-ID: References: <1367401888-21055-1-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Git List , Junio C Hamano , Ramkumar Ramachandra , Jeff King , Duy Nguyen To: Felipe Contreras X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed May 01 12:12:17 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UXU1G-0005yb-CD for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 01 May 2013 12:12:14 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759075Ab3EAKML (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 May 2013 06:12:11 -0400 Received: from mail-lb0-f173.google.com ([209.85.217.173]:34428 "EHLO mail-lb0-f173.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754148Ab3EAKMJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 May 2013 06:12:09 -0400 Received: by mail-lb0-f173.google.com with SMTP id v5so1331579lbc.18 for ; Wed, 01 May 2013 03:12:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=mtJIDuqZkBoX4QMF/1C+vaGjeU1/EbOtjtpdd72b3QA=; b=SM8xkDgYvLRiV6OQ3/HQxvAzFBNRgyWEbbTVq15GmQmBlDTZNQIolTAQny2cfN3MiR IxAK3KPg7f45qNGCB2bWMQiBOYf5YW4qrc1tsc5TekuqZ0yGGPeJllZMnXoBrZkz3rw4 tqOsedn+c9PCLDgo/VbSBn/K76zWeUU0Y8SADUJyX+0rfw55nsp6uVTSJ/tI3AlYZdJR YwSJSzIuZRVCHoX/nZPie3lntGni1RnxYFK2IuJgO/YojVDrpDLM/RoEoqTASEIpulP/ gxvrzC6nWq4Di8eQBGtQcEfP6wNZJw2PPxwvaDQGSYDIYdFXoxzSWAFUw3lQfAnny0w3 fMUQ== X-Received: by 10.112.137.9 with SMTP id qe9mr947254lbb.64.1367403125958; Wed, 01 May 2013 03:12:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.186.233 with HTTP; Wed, 1 May 2013 03:12:05 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1367401888-21055-1-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 21BXNoA5NsuRW5teyzNmLo0_KtQ Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 5:51 AM, Felipe Contreras wrote: > So HEAD@{0}~0^0 is too much to type, but we can remove '^0', and we can > remove '~0', and we can remove 'HEAD', which leaves us with @{0}, but we > can't remove '{0}'? > > This patch allows '@' to be the same as 'HEAD'. > > So now we can use 'git show @~1', and all that goody goodness. > > Until now '@' was a valid name, but it conflicts with this idea, so lets s/lets/let's/ (contraction of "let us") > make it invalid. Probably very few people, if any, used this name. > > Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras