On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 5:59 PM, Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> wrote: > Felipe Contreras <felipe.contre...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Exactly, because ref@something is used for operations on a ref. If >> 'ref' is missing, it only makes sense to use HEAD (or something like >> that), and if 'something' is missing, it only makes sense to make it a >> no-op, but since we don't want to forbid refs with names like >> 'master@'. That's the reason why '@' makes sense, and not any other >> character. > > Yes. My typo made it look as if I meant to say '@' was a bad > choice, but we are in agreement that '@' is better than any other > random choice of single punctuation letter.
Yeah, we agree. > It is just the "strip this, strip that" explanation, which is not > technically correct, does _not_ have to be our justification for > picking '@' as a short-hand for HEAD. The point is that it follows from @something -> @. -- Felipe Contreras -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
