Symbolic refs work in the general case, but making @ a symbolic-ref doesn't work due to a parsing bug in interpret_branch_name(). Update the function to parse "@{", not '@' (since '@' is a valid symbolic ref). This makes a failing test in t1508 (at-combinations) pass. In other words, you can now do: $ git symbolic-ref @ HEAD And expect the following to work: $ git rev-parse @@{u} Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@xxxxxxxxx> --- sha1_name.c | 2 +- t/t1508-at-combinations.sh | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/sha1_name.c b/sha1_name.c index 3820f28..850e6d7 100644 --- a/sha1_name.c +++ b/sha1_name.c @@ -1019,7 +1019,7 @@ int interpret_branch_name(const char *name, struct strbuf *buf) return ret - used + len; } - cp = strchr(name, '@'); + cp = strstr(name, "@{"); if (!cp) return -1; tmp_len = upstream_mark(cp, namelen - (cp - name)); diff --git a/t/t1508-at-combinations.sh b/t/t1508-at-combinations.sh index 424caf5..6a69f9e 100755 --- a/t/t1508-at-combinations.sh +++ b/t/t1508-at-combinations.sh @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ check "H@{u}" refs/heads/upstream-branch git symbolic-ref @ HEAD check "@@{1}" commit new-one check "@@{now}" commit new-two -check "@@{u}" ref refs/heads/upstream-branch failure +check "@@{u}" refs/heads/upstream-branch # Document differences between @{N} and HEAD@{N}. The former resolves # HEAD to a branch and looks up the logs for that branch, while the -- 1.8.3.rc0.40.g09a0447 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html