On Nov 9, 2010, at 11:32 PM, Yann Dirson wrote:
>> Another thing to consider - the current :/foo syntax searches for the
>> newest commit reachable from any ref. Using the ^{} syntax will
>> require specifying a ref first. I'm not sure this is a problem
>> though, as I'm not really sure why :/foo searches from all refs to
>> begin with.
>
> The syntax could be extended so that ^{whatever} starts looking at
> current commit (ie. HEAD), somewhat like @{whatever} looks at reflog for
> current branch.
:/foo doesn't start from the current commit - it searches all refs. However,
making ^{} search all refs if not given one doesn't make sense for any
operator except :/foo, so I don't think it's worth doing
-Kevin Ballard
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