Re: [Bug] Porcelain allows creation of '@' branch

["Kristoffer Haugsbakk" <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com>]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2026, at 20:09, D. Ben Knoble wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2026 at 11:35 AM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>> Bence Csókás <bence.csokas@arm.com> writes:
>>
>> > On 2026. 09. 03. 14:35, Bence Csókás wrote:
>>>>>[snip]
>> >> Bence
>> >
>> > P.S.:
>> >
>> > $  history | grep 'git .*@' | wc -l
>> > 74
>> > $  history | grep HEAD | wc -l
>> > 0
>> >
>> > ;)
>>
>> You have some unlearning of a bad habit to do, then ;-)
>
> Phaw! What's good (short and easy to type) for interactive use may not
> be great for scripts, sure, (in which case spelling out long options,
> writing HEAD, etc., is advisable).
>
> But shorthands are convenient day-to-day. What's a bad habit about that?
>
> (Besides, the OP's grep also counts uses of
> @{upstream}/@{u}/@{push}/reflog syntax/etc.)

I set up `git symbolic-ref refs/H HEAD` after my first `@`
conversation.[1]

🔗 1: https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqy12z7eti.fsf@gitster.g/