From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 05:33:55 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/largely untested/PATCH] sha1_name: interpret ~n as HEAD~n
Message-ID: <7vfwp0uwu4.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <m2k4ecy6rv.fsf@igel.home>

Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>
>> It also conflicts a little with the shell's "~user" syntax, though
>> presumably you don't have users named "1" and "2".
>
> Well, you sorta do if you did use pushd.

Yeah, I was also worried about that.  Or some arcane system
misinterpreting "~0" as the home directory of root ;-)