From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 10:16:01 GMT
Subject: Re: VCS comparison table
Message-ID: <20061020101601.GG20017@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <45387F04.5010101@research.canon.com.au>

Dear diary, on Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 09:47:16AM CEST, I got a letter
where Lachlan Patrick <loki@research.canon.com.au> said that...
> I think git has an alternative way to name revisions
> (can someone please explain it in more detail, I've seen <ref>~<n>
> mentioned only in passing in this thread).

This is just a notion that lets you point to revisions relative to a
given id. <id>~<n> means n-th ancestor of the given commit.

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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