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

From: Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) <zeeshanak@gnome.org>
Date: Jul 15, 2012, 21:48 UTC
Message-ID: <CAAa3hFOEtx7d8QzCyBLJEw7kjEb0oPaT=EnFiY3DdApnkHt+hg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <500301BF.9080505@ira.uka.de>

On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Holger Hellmuth <hellmuth@ira.uka.de> wrote:

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> Am 15.07.2012 00:24, schrieb Zeeshan Ali (Khattak):
>
>> On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 12:26 AM, Junio C Hamano<gitster@pobox.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> "Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)"<zeeshanak@gnome.org>  writes:
>>>
>>>> What about '^' and '^^' that I suggested?
>
>
> If you want a shortcut, you might try this:
>
> echo "ref: HEAD" > .git/h
>
> Then you can use 'h' instead of 'HEAD'.
>
> Tested it and it seemed to work. If not someone on this list surely will
> correct me.

Thanks, was hoping to have something thats supported out of the box in future git but I guess I can settle for a local hack too. :)

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Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124