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Re: Support of '^' as alias for 'HEAD^'

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HHHolger Hellmuth <hellmuth@ira.uka.de>
Date
Jul 15, 2012, 17:45 UTC
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Am 15.07.2012 00:24, schrieb Zeeshan Ali (Khattak):
> On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 12:26 AM, Junio C Hamano<gitster@pobox.com>  wrote:
>> "Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)"<zeeshanak@gnome.org>  writes:
>>
>>> What about '^' and '^^' that I suggested?
If you want a shortcut, you might try this:
echo "ref: HEAD" > .git/h
Then you can use 'h' instead of 'HEAD'.

Tested it and it seemed to work. If not someone on this list surely will correct me.

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  1. Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)Jul 14, 2012
  2. Stefan NäweJul 14, 2012
  3. Junio C HamanoJul 14, 2012
  4. Junio C HamanoJul 14, 2012
  5. Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)Jul 14, 2012
  6. Junio C HamanoJul 14, 2012
  7. Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)Jul 14, 2012
  8. Jeff KingJul 15, 2012
  9. Holger HellmuthJul 15, 2012
  10. Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)Jul 15, 2012

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