From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-reset.txt: Use uniform HEAD~N notation in all examples
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:00:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vy7frzfzg.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <tzqfsijk.fsf@cante.net> (Jari Aalto's message of "Fri, 31 Aug 2007 20:47:11 +0300")
Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> writes:
> The manual mixed both caret(HEAD^) and tilde (HEAD~N) notation in
> examples. This may be xconfusing to new users. The "counting" notation
> HEAD~N likely to be grasped more easily because it allow successive
> numbering 1, 2, 3 etc.
I am mildly negative on this change.
Referring to (rather, "having to refer to" to fix mistakes) the
previous commit happens far more often than referring to an
ancestor of an arbitrary generation away (i.e. HEAD~$n). I
think it is a better idea to expose users early on that HEAD^
notation which is shorter to type.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-31 19:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-31 17:47 [PATCH] git-reset.txt: Use uniform HEAD~N notation in all examples Jari Aalto
2007-08-31 19:00 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2007-09-01 8:39 ` Jari Aalto
2007-09-01 9:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-01 15:01 ` Shawn Bohrer
2007-09-01 20:40 ` Jari Aalto
2007-09-03 2:03 ` Miles Bader
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