Jakub Narebski wrote: > > > My understanding is that ^ is treated as a special metacharacter by some > > shells, which is why bzr revision specs are more long-winded. > > Which shells? In the traditional Bourne shell ^ is an alias for the pipe symbol |. Ciao, ET. - To unsubscribe from this list: 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