From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 21:51:47 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] AsciiDoc fix for tutorial
Message-ID: <7v4q2dri8c.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060304163527.GA12015@craic.sysops.org>

Francis Daly <francis@daoine.org> writes:

>  shows the difference between that previous state and the state two
> -commits ago.  Also, HEAD~5 can be used as a shorthand for HEAD^^^^^,
> +commits ago.  Also, HEAD~5 can be used as a shorthand for HEAD{caret}{caret}{caret}^^,

Thanks.  Why not 5 {caret}, not just three {caret} plus ^^?