From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 19:07:21 GMT
Subject: Re: ~ and ^
Message-ID: <7v8xbssfti.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070513144442.b3cba792.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>

Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca> writes:

> Would it be possible/reasonable to treat a bare ~3 (or ^) on the git command
> line as equivalent to "<current branch>~3" ?    At least @{3} already works
> this way and it would be nice to do the same for the even more common tilde
> and hat operations.  If so, it would be a small convenience to just type:
> "git show ~3"

Interesting.

At least, "ls ~0" does not seem to get confused by bash to be
the home directory of the root user, so I do not offhand think
of a reason not to have ~$n as a synonym to HEAD~$n.  Would that
be useful?  I dunno.

P.S.

Welcome back to the list ;-)