From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jari Aalto Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/git-reset.txt: Use HEAD~N syntax everywhere (unify examples) Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 01:48:15 +0200 Organization: Private Message-ID: References: <3asc6spe.fsf@blue.sea.net> <7v7iho6p2m.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20080202084406.GA15305@glandium.org> <8x235xa8.fsf@blue.sea.net> <20080203193024.GV29522@dpotapov.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Feb 04 00:49:33 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JLoaY-0006Oa-UH for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:49:31 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753492AbYBCXs5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Feb 2008 18:48:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753471AbYBCXs5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Feb 2008 18:48:57 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:36524 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753457AbYBCXs4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Feb 2008 18:48:56 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JLoZx-00022m-Pf for git@vger.kernel.org; Sun, 03 Feb 2008 23:48:53 +0000 Received: from a91-155-178-181.elisa-laajakaista.fi ([91.155.178.181]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 03 Feb 2008 23:48:53 +0000 Received: from jari.aalto by a91-155-178-181.elisa-laajakaista.fi with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 03 Feb 2008 23:48:53 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: a91-155-178-181.elisa-laajakaista.fi User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:vRXML0p/rdN4lAYPFFA135nlu14= Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: * Sun 2008-02-03 Dmitry Potapov * Message-Id: 20080203193024.GV29522@dpotapov.dyndns.org > ^-syntax is very natural to specify the _previous_ commit. Have you > notice we usually say "previous", not "one commit before"? Only if you're grown with git. Everywhere else the concept of HEAD or TIP is more natural, thus progression: HEAD, HEAD~1, HEAD~2 Jari -- Welcome to FOSS revolution: we fix and modify until it shines