From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 17:54:20 GMT Subject: Re: Newbie falls at first hurdle Message-ID: <7vzmqa2reb.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: Linus Torvalds writes: > In other words, you'd have to explain what "pu^2~3" means. > > And octopus merges, for that matter. I don't think the tutorial ever > explains those. Sorry, my excuses are (1) I just did a quick example from a tree I had handy -- my live tree; (2) as long as the user knows the commit show-branch labeled with the cryptic "pu^2~3" is the one s/he wants, it does not matter much what that label exactly means. But of course you are right.