Re: [RFC/largely untested/PATCH] sha1_name: interpret ~n as HEAD~n

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On 30 April 2011 01:23, Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Heya,
>
> On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 00:34, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> So there really isn't a lot of consistency, I guess.  It also conflicts
>> a little with the shell's "~user" syntax, though presumably you don't
>> have users named "1" and "2".
>
> FWIW, I like the patch, mainly because I dislike typing HEAD~n (I
> usually mispel it as HEA~n) and agree with peff's analysis, we're such
> a long way from being any form of consistent that I don't see this
> breaking any user expectations.

Something I always set up in the skeleton dir
($prefix/share/git-core/templates) after installing git is
echo 'ref: HEAD' > h
it makes life so much easier :).

-- 
Mikael Magnusson
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