From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2008 02:37:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/git-reset.txt: Use HEAD~N syntax everywhere (unify examples)
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802020235480.7372@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <3asc6spe.fsf@blue.sea.net>

Hi,

On Sat, 2 Feb 2008, Jari Aalto wrote:

> The examples in the documentation refer to multiple ~N commits. To Keep 
> the exampels unified with the same syntax, use ~N in all examples.

AFAIR it was already shot down.  Personally, I think it is not expecting 
too much of people to have the ambiguity between ~1 and ^1.  Even worse, 
if you hide the ^-syntax from new users, they will be puzzled how to 
access the different parents of merge commits.

Ciao,
Dscho