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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
To: Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ~ and ^
Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 12:07:21 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v8xbssfti.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070513144442.b3cba792.seanlkml@sympatico.ca> (seanlkml@sympatico.ca's message of "Sun, 13 May 2007 14:44:42 -0400")

Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca> writes:

> Would it be possible/reasonable to treat a bare ~3 (or ^) on the git command
> line as equivalent to "<current branch>~3" ?    At least @{3} already works
> this way and it would be nice to do the same for the even more common tilde
> and hat operations.  If so, it would be a small convenience to just type:
> "git show ~3"

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.

P.S.

Welcome back to the list ;-)

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-13 19:07 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 [this message]
2007-05-13 19:13   ` Karl Hasselström
2007-05-13 19:49     ` Sean
2007-05-13 19:17   ` Sean
2007-05-13 20:31   ` Robin Rosenberg

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