From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 20:31:02 GMT
Subject: Re: ~ and ^
Message-ID: <200705132231.03180.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v8xbssfti.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

söndag 13 maj 2007 skrev Junio C Hamano:
> Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca> writes:
> 
> > Would it be possible/reasonable to treat a bare ~3 (or ^) on the git command
> > line as equivalent to "<current branch>~3" ?    At least @{3} already works
> > this way and it would be nice to do the same for the even more common tilde
> > and hat operations.  If so, it would be a small convenience to just type:
> > "git show ~3"
> 
> Interesting.
> 
> At least, "ls ~0" does not seem to get confused by bash to be
> the home directory of the root user, so I do not offhand think
> of a reason not to have ~$n as a synonym to HEAD~$n.  Would that
> be useful?  I dunno.

~0 is my current directory in bash.

$ echo ~0
/home/me/tmp

-- robin