From: Holger Hellmuth <hellmuth@ira.uka.de>
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 17:45:35 GMT
Subject: Re: Support of '^' as alias for 'HEAD^'
Message-ID: <500301BF.9080505@ira.uka.de>
In-Reply-To: <CAAa3hFMNf_wA22ngypSu379jr31r3L3yAjTkvDUd_L-mVwPJkA@mail.gmail.com>

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.