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 - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html