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authorFelipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>2013-09-02 01:34:30 -0500
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2013-09-12 14:39:34 -0700
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Add new @ shortcut for HEAD
Typing 'HEAD' is tedious, especially when we can use '@' instead. The reason for choosing '@' is that it follows naturally from the ref@op syntax (e.g. HEAD@{u}), except we have no ref, and no operation, and when we don't have those, it makes sens to assume 'HEAD'. So now we can use 'git show @~1', and all that goody goodness. Until now '@' was a valid name, but it conflicts with this idea, so let's make it invalid. Probably very few people, if any, used this name. Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -54,6 +54,8 @@ Git imposes the following rules on how references are named:
. They cannot contain a sequence `@{`.
+. They cannot be the single character `@`.
+
. They cannot contain a `\`.
These rules make it easy for shell script based tools to parse