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From: "Stefan Näwe" <stefan.naewe@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Support of '^' as alias for 'HEAD^'
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 09:48:31 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20120714T114718-783@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAAa3hFMgy66W0dVEGv164Zowfa6Q-5DqgkkLz_1paymU_1SHUw@mail.gmail.com

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak <zeeshanak <at> gnome.org> writes:

> 
> Hi,
>   Many times I want to refer to 'HEAD^', 'HEAD^^' and sometimes even
> further up the tree. It would be really nice if I didn't have to type
> 'HEAD^' but could only type '^'. Bash completion make things easier
> but it automatically inserts a space immediately after HEAD so you
> have to hit backspace. I think this change would be good in general
> anyway.

Or even '~1', '~3'.

Where's the '+1' button...?

Stefan

  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-14  9:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-14  0:39 Support of '^' as alias for 'HEAD^' Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
2012-07-14  9:48 ` Stefan Näwe [this message]
2012-07-14 20:17   ` Junio C Hamano
2012-07-14 20:34     ` Junio C Hamano
2012-07-14 20:49       ` Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
2012-07-14 21:26         ` Junio C Hamano
2012-07-14 22:24           ` Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
2012-07-15  7:44             ` Jeff King
2012-07-15 17:45             ` Holger Hellmuth
2012-07-15 21:48               ` Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)

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