Re: [PATCH] git-reset.txt: Use commit~1 notation over commit^

From

Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>

Date

Dec 2, 2010, 02:46 UTC

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> And "HEAD^" is shorter and much easier to type, and more importantly, it
> is more often used in the wild, so the readers of the documentation needs
> to know it anyway to understand what other people do.

Seriously:  People like ^.

-Miles

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