Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] git put: an alternative to add/reset/checkout

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 20:57:47 +0200

Matthieu Moy wrote:
> Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]> writes:
> > Matthieu Moy wrote:
> >> Jeff King <[email-masked]> writes:
> >> > On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 07:28:35PM +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote:
> >> >> > Jeff King <[email-masked]> writes:
> >> >> >
> >> >> > * @{wtree} would confuse users that it has something to do with reflog
> >> >> 
> >> >> Well, we already have @{upstream} ...
> >> >
> >> > Yes, but like all of the @{} things, it's a modifier for the left-hand
> >> > side. So "master@{upstream}" is meaningful, and "@{upstream}" is the
> >> > same as "HEAD@{upstream}".
> >> >
> >> > What does "master@{wtree}" mean?
> >> 
> >> Nothing, but then we already have @{-1} ;-).
> >
> > That's actually HEAD reflog.
> 
> Yes, but neither HEAD@{-1} nor master@{-1} work. So we have one instance
> of @{...} which is unrelated from reflog, and another which isn't a
> suffix. @{wtree} would be both.

But both are about refs (upstream of a ref, or previously checked-out ref).
@{wtree} ain't.

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Jakub Narebski
Poland