From: Björn Steinbrink <b.steinbrink@gmx.de>
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:54:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rev-parse: Add support for the ^! and ^@ syntax
Message-ID: <20080726165406.GA26378@atjola.homenet>
In-Reply-To: <20080726163756.GA25103@atjola.homenet>

On 2008.07.26 18:37:56 +0200, Björn Steinbrink wrote:
> 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