From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Schwab Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-reset.txt: Use commit~1 notation over commit^ Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 01:07:03 +0100 Message-ID: References: <1291227258-17922-1-git-send-email-jari.aalto@cante.net> <1291230820.11917.25.camel@drew-northup.unet.maine.edu> <877hftuvvz.fsf@picasso.cante.net> <7vfwuhtafr.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <87eia1t8ef.fsf@picasso.cante.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Jari Aalto X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Dec 02 01:07:44 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PNwi7-0007lZ-Va for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Dec 2010 01:07:44 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755105Ab0LBAHI (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Dec 2010 19:07:08 -0500 Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.9]:42919 "EHLO mail-out.m-online.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751417Ab0LBAHG (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Dec 2010 19:07:06 -0500 Received: from frontend1.mail.m-online.net (unknown [192.168.8.180]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2EE41C089FB; Thu, 2 Dec 2010 01:07:03 +0100 (CET) Received: from igel.home (ppp-88-217-105-177.dynamic.mnet-online.de [88.217.105.177]) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id C155C1C001BD; Thu, 2 Dec 2010 01:07:03 +0100 (CET) Received: by igel.home (Postfix, from userid 501) id 7413DCA2A0; Thu, 2 Dec 2010 01:07:03 +0100 (CET) X-Yow: Yow! Those people look exactly like Donnie and Marie Osmond!! In-Reply-To: <87eia1t8ef.fsf@picasso.cante.net> (Jari Aalto's message of "Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:50:32 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2.90 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jari Aalto writes: > 2010-12-02 00:06 Junio C Hamano : >> And "HEAD^" is shorter and much easier to type > > I don't know in which part of world that is, probably only using US > keyboard. Not so elsewhere with keyboards more than just only ASCII > characters. On a German keyboard ~ is awkward to type (AltGr-+) whereas ^ is on an unshifted key. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."