From: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
To: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/largely untested/PATCH] sha1_name: interpret ~n as HEAD~n
Date: Sat, 7 May 2011 04:24:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTinsWpXYN+Zejph6toidZWFAkprcYw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=7_-TF63Y9MRHZ_XirSUD6RAC9kw@mail.gmail.com>
On 30 April 2011 01:23, Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> wrote:
> Heya,
>
> On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 00:34, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
>> So there really isn't a lot of consistency, I guess. It also conflicts
>> a little with the shell's "~user" syntax, though presumably you don't
>> have users named "1" and "2".
>
> FWIW, I like the patch, mainly because I dislike typing HEAD~n (I
> usually mispel it as HEA~n) and agree with peff's analysis, we're such
> a long way from being any form of consistent that I don't see this
> breaking any user expectations.
Something I always set up in the skeleton dir
($prefix/share/git-core/templates) after installing git is
echo 'ref: HEAD' > h
it makes life so much easier :).
--
Mikael Magnusson
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-07 2:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-29 15:53 [RFC/largely untested/PATCH] sha1_name: interpret ~n as HEAD~n Michael J Gruber
2011-04-29 16:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-01 8:30 ` Michael J Gruber
2011-05-01 9:04 ` Matthieu Moy
2011-05-01 18:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-01 21:21 ` Matthieu Moy
2011-04-29 22:34 ` Jeff King
2011-04-29 23:23 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2011-05-07 2:24 ` Mikael Magnusson [this message]
2011-04-29 23:31 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-04-30 5:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-30 9:09 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-05-02 8:42 ` Michael J Gruber
[not found] ` <BANLkTinxszGhtYobuvci5Yi8eTHW+pi2wA@mail.gmail.com>
2011-05-02 11:04 ` Michael J Gruber
2011-05-02 16:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-05-02 17:49 ` Michael J Gruber
2011-05-02 20:14 ` Matthieu Moy
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