From: Shawn Pearce Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 17:08:36 GMT Subject: Re: multi-project repos (was Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts) Message-ID: <20061117170836.GD32597@spearce.org> In-Reply-To: Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, 17 Nov 2006, Shawn Pearce wrote: > > > > Although if you have reflog enabled on your current branch there > > is a 1 character shorter syntax: > > > > gitk HEAD@{1}.. > > Heh. With a finnish keyboard, that "@" is AltGr+'2', and the '{'/'}' is > AltGr+'7'/'0', I guarantee that it's not "1 character shorter", it's > "three pretty complicated characters longer" and "off the normal path > where you hold your fingers on the keyboard ;) I forgot that you use a finnish keyboard. :-) I agree with you; its not easier to type, for you. Me, I'm a dumb American who uses a Kinesis keyboard, therefore my left foot is my shift key and its in sync with my fingers. I have no extra pinky load for either syntax. And since the reflog syntax works in a lot more contexts (e.g. after a fetch into a tracking branch) I have just forgotten about ORIG_HEAD entirely. Oh sure, I know its there, but its not something I think about using... --