From: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:33:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/git-reset.txt: Use HEAD~N syntax everywhere (unify examples)
Message-ID: <20080204223350.GA30368@dpotapov.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <bq6x38lc.fsf@blue.sea.net>

On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 01:48:15AM +0200, Jari Aalto wrote:
> * Sun 2008-02-03 Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
> * Message-Id: 20080203193024.GV29522@dpotapov.dyndns.org
> > ^-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