From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-reset.txt: Use commit~1 notation over commit^
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 11:46:08 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k4js51u7.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vfwuhtafr.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Wed, 01 Dec 2010 14:06:32 -0800")
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> And "HEAD^" is shorter and much easier to type, and more importantly, it
> is more often used in the wild, so the readers of the documentation needs
> to know it anyway to understand what other people do.
Seriously: People like ^.
This doc change is not good (and seems to demonstrate a lack of
familiarity with typical git usage)....
-Miles
--
o The existentialist, not having a pillow, goes everywhere with the book by
Sullivan, _I am going to spit on your graves_.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-02 2:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-01 18:14 [PATCH] git-reset.txt: Use commit~1 notation over commit^ jari.aalto
2010-12-01 19:13 ` Drew Northup
2010-12-01 19:37 ` Jari Aalto
2010-12-01 22:01 ` Kevin Ballard
2010-12-01 22:49 ` Jari Aalto
2010-12-01 22:56 ` Kevin Ballard
2010-12-01 22:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-12-01 22:50 ` Jari Aalto
2010-12-02 0:07 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-12-02 5:37 ` Jari Aalto
2010-12-01 22:56 ` Santi Béjar
2010-12-02 5:39 ` Jari Aalto
2010-12-02 6:17 ` Miles Bader
2010-12-02 12:14 ` Jari Aalto
2010-12-02 12:51 ` Drew Northup
2010-12-02 13:17 ` Miles Bader
2010-12-02 13:20 ` jari
2010-12-02 17:44 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-12-02 17:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-12-02 18:46 ` Jeff King
2010-12-02 18:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-12-02 19:05 ` Jeff King
2010-12-02 2:46 ` Miles Bader [this message]
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