From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Extended SHA1 -- "rev^#" syntax to mean "all parents"
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 09:59:53 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0604290954370.3701@g5.osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0604291737390.25093@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
On Sat, 29 Apr 2006, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>
> > A short-hand "rev^#" is understood to be "all parents of the
> > named commit" with this patch.
>
> Just my 2/100: Why not "rev^*"? I could remember that more easily.
Yeah, that (or ^@ - to match shell "$1" "$2" .. "$@") was my reaction too.
The "rev^#" thing should to my mind return the _number_ of parents, the
same way "$#" does in shell. I actually pronounce that '#' character
mentally as "number", but maybe that's just because I'm totally mentally
damaged by shell programming, and everybody else probably calls it "hash"
(and some people apparently call it "pound", for some really sick reason).
So "rev^#" literally reads as "revision parent number" to me. Useful?
Maybe. Maybe not.
Linus
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-29 17:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-29 7:19 [PATCH] built-in diff Junio C Hamano
2006-04-29 9:29 ` [PATCH] built-in diff: assorted updates Junio C Hamano
2006-04-29 9:45 ` [PATCH/RFC] Extended SHA1 -- "rev^#" syntax to mean "all parents" Junio C Hamano
2006-04-29 15:38 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-04-29 16:59 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
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