From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Edgar Toernig Subject: Re: VCS comparison table Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 00:52:48 +0200 Message-ID: <20061022005248.168709cb.froese@gmx.de> References: <9e4733910610140807p633f5660q49dd2d2111c9f5fe@mail.gmail.com> <87irie1wvv.wl%cworth@cworth.org> <453A7D7E.8060105@utoronto.ca> <200610212248.37935.jnareb@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Aaron Bentley , Carl Worth , Linus Torvalds , Andreas Ericsson , bazaar-ng@lists.canonical.com, git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Oct 22 00:53:02 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GbPi7-0005AU-0s for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 00:52:59 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161504AbWJUWwy (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Oct 2006 18:52:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161507AbWJUWwy (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Oct 2006 18:52:54 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:59277 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1161508AbWJUWww (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Oct 2006 18:52:52 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 21 Oct 2006 22:52:50 -0000 Received: from p50900E81.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO dialup) [80.144.14.129] by mail.gmx.net (mp019) with SMTP; 22 Oct 2006 00:52:50 +0200 X-Authenticated: #271361 To: Jakub Narebski In-Reply-To: <200610212248.37935.jnareb@gmail.com> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jakub Narebski wrote: > > > My understanding is that ^ is treated as a special metacharacter by some > > shells, which is why bzr revision specs are more long-winded. > > Which shells? In the traditional Bourne shell ^ is an alias for the pipe symbol |. Ciao, ET.