Johannes Sixt <j6t@xxxxxxxx> writes: > Am 14.08.2013 20:05, schrieb Junio C Hamano: >> Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>> My problems is that some new automagical interpretation of the bare >>> @' character (introduced after 1.8.3) has destroyed my use case: >>> ... >>> I don't want to ask you to revert this new behaviour, but I'd like to >>> at least have an option to disable it. >> >> I do not think it is simply not worth the complexity to selectively >> disable it. If it is a regression, it is much better to simply >> revert, if we can (it appears that cdfd9483 (Add new @ shortcut for >> HEAD, 2013-05-07) can be reverted without any textual context, but >> there may already be new stuff that depends on the "@"). >> >> For the upcoming release, I am very much tempted to revert it and >> let the topic retried, by people who really want the "let's save >> four keystrokes and replace it with @ aka Shift-<something>", >> without hurting your use case (and others), after the upcoming >> release. >> >> What do others think? > > Stefano's use-case, where @/foo is turned into HEAD/foo, indicates a bug. > > In my opinion, the topic, which touches a central part of ref > handling, was a bit hurried (and this report is a symptom of it), and > I wouldn't mind seeing it reverted. Thanks; you said it much better than I did. I think the short-hand is not a bad idea by itself, but the execution may need to be redone a bit more carefully, and it is prudent to revert it from the upcoming release. -- 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