Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Stefan Näwe <stefan.naewe@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Zeeshan Ali (Khattak <zeeshanak <at> gnome.org> writes: >>> >>> 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'. > > "^" has a problem when used with other things (does "log ^^2 > origin" mean "log HEAD^2..origin"? Or "log HEAD^^2 origin"), so I > do not think it would never fly as an abbreviated syntax. > > While I see your "~<N>" much distasteful compared to "^", you still s/dist/less dist/; sorry ;-) > need to be a bit more careful when analysing the benefit of such an > abbreviation. To shells used by many people, these mean tilde > expansion ~<N> to refer to elements on the dirstack and you need to > quote, perhaps like \~3. -- 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