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From: Stefan =?utf-8?b?TsOkd2U=?= <stefan.naewe@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Support of '^' as alias for 'HEAD^'
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 09:48:31 +0000 (UTC)
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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