From: Phil Hord <phil.hord@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 21:25:25 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG] Highly inconsistent diff UI
Message-ID: <CABURp0qHRQvUSKMth8mZjwcX9sn-vrcf+ZUswQADW5wwzx4MWA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CALkWK0=5tE0pXj-XTe4g9LdCO78yrPNwyom5fupF1WTToY2TZw@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Ramkumar Ramachandra
<artagnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
>> I'm also considering making the first
>> argument optional (just git log ~rebase.autostash), and defaulting to
>> mean [nearest fork point].
>
> Actually both can be optional.  In A~B, A defaults to [nearest fork
> point] and B defaults to HEAD.
>
>     git log ~
>
> Isn't it beautiful?

Sure, but we'll forever be explaining to users that they will need to
quote the tilde to avoid shell expansion.

$ echo "~" ~ "~"
~ /home/hordp ~

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