On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 5:19 AM, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Felipe Contreras
> <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Through the years the functionality to handle @{-N} and @{u} has moved
>> around the code, and as a result, code that once made sense, doesn't any
>> more.
>>
>> There is no need to call this function recursively with the branch of
>> @{-N} substituted because dwim_{ref,log} already replaces it.
>>
>> However, there's one corner-case where @{-N} resolves to a detached
>> HEAD, in which case we wouldn't get any ref back.
>>
>> So we parse the nth-prior manually, and deal with it depending on
>> weather it's a SHA-1, or a ref.
>
> If you are brave, reorganize the whole extended sha-1 parsing code. I
> think the right-to-left parsing is confusing, not to mention it has to
> treat ":path" differently. But may be that's too big work for little
> gain.
Yeah, it took me a while to figure it was the other way around to what
I thought was natural. Maybe after the dust with '@' is settled.
FTR. This doesn't work @{u}@{u}.
--
Felipe Contreras
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