Junio C Hamano wrote: > What is this meant to update? I recall rewriting this part on > purpose. I was being verbose to show that I handle the detached HEAD case too, which I missed last time. > Even though it appears unusual and invites confusion, it is very > consistent to say '' when the user asks for @... as we say 'master' > when the user asks for master@...; "inconsistent" is a very bad > label for it. The inconsistency refers to these two: >> # on branch master >> $ git show @{10000} >> fatal: Log for '' only has 7 entries. >> # detached HEAD case >> $ git show @{10000} >> fatal: Log for '' only has 2005 entries. Is the commit message unclear? -- 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