John Keeping <j...@keeping.me.uk> writes:
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 10:53:01AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> "rebase -" with your change still says something like this:
>>
>> First, rewinding head to replay your work on top of it...
>> Fast-forwarded HEAD to @{-1}.
>>
>> instead of "Fast-forwarded HEAD to -". Somebody may later want
>> to "fix" this, making these two eye-candy output to be different
>> from each other, and what your test expects will no longer hold
>> (not that I think it is better to say "-" instead of @{-1}
>> there).
>
> I don't think either of these is correct. When using "-" with the
> commands that already support it, I have occasionally found that "-"
> isn't what I thought it was.
>
> Can we use `git name-rev` to put the actual name here, so that people
> who have not done what they intended can hopefully notice sooner?
That sounds like a right thing to do. It however is totally
orthogonal to the change we are discussing, and should be done as a
separate patch.
Thanks.
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