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

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jul 14, 2012, 21:26 UTC
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"Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <zeeshanak@gnome.org> writes:
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> What about '^' and '^^' that I suggested?
>
>>> While I see your "~<N>" much distasteful compared to "^", you still
>>
>> s/dist/less dist/; sorry ;-)
>
> Why?

That "^^" is the most important reason why your "^ is the same as HEAD^" is flawed, and goes against my taste.

Think what "log ^^ origin" would mean. Is it "log ^HEAD^ origin"? Is it "log HEAD^^ origin"? They mean totally different things.

Compared to that, at least ~<n> does not have such ambiguity within the context of Git (having to quote is an ambiguity within the context of using Git with shells that support dirstacks in their tilde expansion).

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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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