On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> Also ORIG_HEAD is probably redundant.  After a successful
> automerge, the same information can be had by HEAD^1

Absolutely not.

You forgot about one of the most common merge cases: fast-forward.

In fact, ORIG_HEAD is _the_ most common head I use explicitly. Almost all 
operations take HEAD as default, but doing a

        gitk ORIG_HEAD..

is extremely useful after a pull.

                Linus
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