On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 12:26 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > "Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <zeeshanak@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> What about '^' and '^^' that I suggested? >> >>>> While I see your "~<N>" much distasteful compared to "^", you still >>> >>> s/dist/less dist/; sorry ;-) >> >> Why? > > That "^^" is the most important reason why your "^ is the same as > HEAD^" is flawed, and goes against my taste. > > Think what "log ^^ origin" would mean. Is it "log ^HEAD^ origin"? > Is it "log HEAD^^ origin"? They mean totally different things. Sorry for my ignorance here but what does ^ *before* HEAD even mean? I tried playing with different combinations of ^ and HEAD here (e.g ^HEAD^, ^HEAD^^, ^HEAD^^^) with both log and show commands but git just silently returns on them. Is this ^ before HEAD actually used cause I have never seen/heard of that before. Google isn't able to help either. > Compared to that, at least ~<n> does not have such ambiguity within > the context of Git (having to quote is an ambiguity within the > context of using Git with shells that support dirstacks in their > tilde expansion). Don't know whats dirstacks support either but that I guess just means that bash (the shell I have always used) doesn't do that. -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 -- 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