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Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:59:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Junio C Hamano To: "Kristoffer Haugsbakk" Cc: "D. Ben Knoble" , Bence =?utf-8?B?Q3PDs2vDoXM=?= , git@vger.kernel.org, "Jeff King" Subject: Re: [Bug] Porcelain allows creation of '@' branch In-Reply-To: <3d9463a2-d099-4f9d-a380-4c5036da1c20@app.fastmail.com> (Kristoffer Haugsbakk's message of "Sat, 17 Oct 2026 18:43:05 +0200") References: <4e8d8b75-ddf4-4602-a2a8-26e5214c65f0@arm.com> <958622c0-e0a5-4e27-9815-cd1fff2ed111@app.fastmail.com> <2006115b-bcf2-486a-ac7a-681caae686b4@arm.com> <3d9463a2-d099-4f9d-a380-4c5036da1c20@app.fastmail.com> Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2026 09:59:50 -0700 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain "Kristoffer Haugsbakk" writes: > It replaces my want to use `@` which means that what you wrote > back then:[1] > > JCH> I suspect that it is much more productive to deprecate and remove > JCH> "@" that is a built-in synomym for HEAD (but "refs/remotes/origin/@" > JCH> does not act as a synonym for "refs/remotes/origin/HEAD"). [...] > > Would not affect me. (Not that I believe that it would happen.) I do not think it would happen, either. There are many things in Git that I have publicly said are poorly designed, but that we cannot correct due to heavy inertia.