From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH] AsciiDoc fix for tutorial Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 13:51:47 -0800 Message-ID: <7v4q2dri8c.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> References: <20060304163527.GA12015@craic.sysops.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Mar 04 22:52:02 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 1FFefN-0000QQ-DZ for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 04 Mar 2006 22:51:57 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751355AbWCDVvy (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Mar 2006 16:51:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752008AbWCDVvy (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Mar 2006 16:51:54 -0500 Received: from fed1rmmtao06.cox.net ([68.230.241.33]:420 "EHLO fed1rmmtao06.cox.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751355AbWCDVvx (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Mar 2006 16:51:53 -0500 Received: from assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net ([68.4.9.127]) by fed1rmmtao06.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.05.02 201-2131-123-102-20050715) with ESMTP id <20060304214803.DODH20050.fed1rmmtao06.cox.net@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>; Sat, 4 Mar 2006 16:48:03 -0500 To: Francis Daly In-Reply-To: <20060304163527.GA12015@craic.sysops.org> (Francis Daly's message of "Sat, 4 Mar 2006 16:35:27 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Francis Daly writes: > shows the difference between that previous state and the state two > -commits ago. Also, HEAD~5 can be used as a shorthand for HEAD^^^^^, > +commits ago. Also, HEAD~5 can be used as a shorthand for HEAD{caret}{caret}{caret}^^, Thanks. Why not 5 {caret}, not just three {caret} plus ^^?