From: Miles Bader Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 02:46:08 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-reset.txt: Use commit~1 notation over commit^ Message-ID: <87k4js51u7.fsf@catnip.gol.com> In-Reply-To: <7vfwuhtafr.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Junio C Hamano 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 ^. This doc change is not good (and seems to demonstrate a lack of familiarity with typical git usage).... -Miles -- o The existentialist, not having a pillow, goes everywhere with the book by Sullivan, _I am going to spit on your graves_.