Re: [PATCH] Documentation/git-reset.txt: Use HEAD~N syntax everywhere (unify examples)

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On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 01:48:15AM +0200, Jari Aalto wrote:
> * Sun 2008-02-03 Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@xxxxxxxxx>
> * Message-Id: 20080203193024.GV29522@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > ^-syntax is very natural to specify the _previous_ commit. Have you
> > notice we usually say "previous", not "one commit before"?
> 
> Only if you're grown with git.

Hmm... I always thought that the word "previous" existed well before Git...

> Everywhere else the concept of HEAD or
> TIP is more natural,

How so?

> thus progression:
> 
>     HEAD, HEAD~1, HEAD~2

Non sequitur.



Dmitry
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