From: Sergei Organov Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:11:58 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-rev-parse.txt: clarify meaning of rev~ and rev~0. Message-ID: <87prtxm875.fsf@osv.gnss.ru> In-Reply-To: Linus Torvalds writes: > On Fri, 14 Mar 2008, Sergei Organov wrote: >> >> + ... 'rev{tilde}' is equivalent to 'rev{tilde}0' >> + which in turn is equivalent to 'rev'. > > I'd actually prefer to just fix that. > > I think it would make more sense to have the same guarantees that rev^ > has, namely to always return a commit. I would also suggest that not > giving a number would have the same effect of defaulting to 1, not 0. > > Right now it's a bit illogical, but at least it's an _undocumented_ > illogical behaviour. If we document it, we should fix it and document the > logical behaviour instead, no? > I entirely agree. I just took (maybe erroneously) Junio's answer to my original question as "this behavior is by design", assuming some rationale behind it, so submitted the above patch to documentation. -- Sergei.