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Re: [PATCH] rev-parse: Add support for the ^! and ^@ syntax

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Björn Steinbrink <b.steinbrink@gmx.de>
Date
Jul 26, 2008, 16:54 UTC
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<20080726165406.GA26378@atjola.homenet>
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On 2008.07.26 18:37:56 +0200, Björn Steinbrink wrote:
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> Those shorthands are explained in the rev-parse documentation but were not
> actually supported by rev-parse itself.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>
> ---

Ah crap, forgot to say that I wrote this because I wanted gitk to support the ^! syntax and that uses rev-parse to parse its revision arguments. My use-case with gitk is to quickly verify a bunch of grafts I used to fixup the history in a git-svn repo.

Björn
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