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From: Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ~ and ^
Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 15:17:09 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070513151709.76b5fc33.seanlkml@sympatico.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v8xbssfti.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Sun, 13 May 2007 12:07:21 -0700
Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:

> Interesting.
> 
> At least, "ls ~0" does not seem to get confused by bash to be
> the home directory of the root user, so I do not offhand think
> of a reason not to have ~$n as a synonym to HEAD~$n.  Would that
> be useful?  I dunno.

Not going to shake the world but it's a small convenience.  Would be
a bit nicer if a lone ~ worked as well without escaping, but I'm not
sure you'd accept a patch to assume "~" whenever git is passed the
users home directory as a lone option ;)

> P.S.
> 
> Welcome back to the list ;-)
> 

Thanks.

Sean

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-05-13 19:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-13 18:44 ~ and ^ Sean
2007-05-13 19:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-13 19:13   ` Karl Hasselström
2007-05-13 19:49     ` Sean
2007-05-13 19:17   ` Sean [this message]
2007-05-13 20:31   ` Robin Rosenberg

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