On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 10:05 PM, Mathieu Lemoine <mathieu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > In https://raw.github.com/git/git/master/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.txt > is mentioned: > > * Instead of typing four capital letters "HEAD", you can say "@" now, > e.g. "git log @". > > However, `git symbolic-ref @` gives "fatal: No such ref: @", while > `git symbolic-ref @` gives "refs/heads/master". you meant "while `git symbolic-ref _HEAD_` gives refs/heads/master"? > I looked around in the archive and #git, but nobody seemed to be aware > of the behaviour. > > I wonder if it's on purpose given the low level of symbolic-ref or if > it's a bug. I think this is because symbolic-ref (and show-ref) takes plain refs, either in full or short form, but nothing else fancier. I'm not sure if we should add support for @ (and maybe @{u} as it's in the same boat) to these commands. If it's confusing and hard to explain in documents then maybe we should. -- Duy -- 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