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Re: [PATCH] revisions.txt: mention <rev>~ form

From
Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 22, 2019, 09:59 UTC
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On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 1:14 PM Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com> wrote:
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> In revisions.txt, the '<rev>^' form is mentioned but the '<rev>~' form
> is missing. Although both forms are essentially equivalent (they each
> get the first parent of the specified revision), we should mention the
> latter for completeness. Make this change.

Do we really support this, or is it a bug in rev parsing code that treats <rev>~ like <rev>~1?

Hmm.. digging... ah 621ff67594 (rev-parse: fix meaning of rev~ vs rev~0., 2008-03-14) at least it's not an unintended bahaviour.

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Duy
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Message 5 of 16 in “revisions.txt: mention <rev>~ form”
  1. revisions.txt: mention <rev>~ formDenton Liu, Apr 22, 2019
  2. Junio C HamanoApr 22, 2019
  3. Denton LiuApr 22, 2019
  4. Junio C HamanoApr 22, 2019
  5. Duy NguyenApr 22, 2019
  6. Junio C HamanoApr 24, 2019
  7. Andreas HeidukApr 26, 2019
  8. Denton LiuApr 26, 2019
  9. 0/3 cleanup revisions.txtDenton Liu, Apr 27, 2019
  10. 1/3 revisions.txt: change "rev" to "<rev>"Denton Liu, Apr 27, 2019
  11. 2/3 revisions.txt: mark optional rev arguments with []Denton Liu, Apr 27, 2019
  12. Andreas HeidukMay 3, 2019
  13. Andreas HeidukMay 3, 2019
  14. 3/3 revisions.txt: mention <rev>~ formDenton Liu, Apr 27, 2019
  15. Andreas HeidukMay 3, 2019
  16. Denton LiuMay 3, 2019

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