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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
To: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>,
	Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] prevent HEAD reflog to be interpreted as current branch reflog
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 09:55:26 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702020953190.3021@xanadu.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200702021302.10567.andyparkins@gmail.com>

On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Andy Parkins wrote:

> On Friday 2007 February 02 11:02, Lars Hjemli wrote:
> 
> >   "HEAD@{yesterday}" = current branch, yesterday
> >   "@{yesterday}"     = detached head (no branch), yesterday
> 
> I'd vote for this too.  It's the only logically consistent view.

No it is not.

> HEAD is a symbolic reference, it's a way of referring to a real branch by 
> another name.  HEAD@{} should be the same as branch@{} to be consistent.

HEAD is _NOT_ a symbolic reference.  It _may_ happen to be a symbolic 
reference, but it _may_ happen to not be.

And please see my previous email for more arguments.


Nicolas

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-02 14:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-01 17:33 [PATCH 3/3] prevent HEAD reflog to be interpreted as current branch reflog Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-01 19:13 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-01 20:58   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-01 21:29     ` Simon 'corecode' Schubert
2007-02-01 22:12       ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-01 22:17         ` Matthias Lederhofer
2007-02-01 22:29           ` [PATCH 4/3] provide a nice @{...} syntax to always mean the " Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-01 23:07             ` [PATCH 5/3], was " Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-01 23:21               ` [PATCH 6/3], was " Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-02  1:15             ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-01 21:46     ` [PATCH 3/3] prevent HEAD reflog to be interpreted as " Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-02 10:31     ` Jakub Narebski
2007-02-02 10:42       ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-02 11:02         ` Lars Hjemli
2007-02-02 13:02           ` Andy Parkins
2007-02-02 14:55             ` Nicolas Pitre [this message]
2007-02-02 15:13             ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-02 16:11               ` Andy Parkins
2007-02-02 16:35                 ` Simon 'corecode' Schubert
2007-02-02 17:19                 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-03 17:07                 ` Mark Wooding
2007-02-03 17:54                   ` Andy Parkins
2007-02-02 13:21           ` Jakub Narebski
2007-02-02 13:47           ` Simon 'corecode' Schubert
2007-02-02 19:40             ` Simon 'corecode' Schubert
2007-02-02 14:52           ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-02-02 15:39             ` Lars Hjemli
2007-02-05 11:11           ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-05 11:21             ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-02-05 12:43               ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-02-05 23:11             ` Lars Hjemli
2007-02-02 13:08 ` Andy Parkins
2007-02-02 15:15   ` Rogan Dawes
2007-02-02 16:13     ` Andy Parkins
2007-02-03  3:04   ` Junio C Hamano

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