On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Ramkumar Ramachandra
<artagnon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Felipe Contreras wrote:
>> We probably should fix those, but that is orthogonal to the '@' shortcut.
>>
>> We can have the '@' shortcut *today*, with minimal changes to the code
>> and the documentation, in a limited and understood scope, with no
>> surprises.
>>
>> We can fix the symbolic ref stuff slowly, step by step, no need to
>> delay the '@' shortcut for that.
>
> Agreed.
If only we didn't care about windows then we could have this feature today:
cd .git
ln -s HEAD @
...and everything works, in the most natural way.
Has anyone else tweaked their repo this way?
Is an alternative implementation to change the template repo to ship
with a symlink?
For windows, perhaps we can use this new code behind an #ifdef?
Anyways, it's just a crazy idea. I very much like this feature,
and in a tweaked repo @{0}{1} actually works.
Is there no way to tweak this at some really low level to trick git
into believing the link exists (even when it doesn't)?
I guess that's what these patches do, but the limitations seem unfortunate.
--
David
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