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Re: [RFC/largely untested/PATCH] sha1_name: interpret ~n as HEAD~n

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Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
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Apr 30, 2011, 09:09 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
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> Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
>
>> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>>
>>> It also conflicts a little with the shell's "~user" syntax, though
>>> presumably you don't have users named "1" and "2".
>>
>> Well, you sorta do if you did use pushd.
>
> Yeah, I was also worried about that.  Or some arcane system
> misinterpreting "~0" as the home directory of root ;-)
On non-arcane systems ~0 is expanded to the current directory.
Andreas.
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  1. sha1_name: interpret ~n as HEAD~nMichael J Gruber, Apr 29, 2011
  2. Junio C HamanoApr 29, 2011
  3. Michael J GruberMay 1, 2011
  4. Matthieu MoyMay 1, 2011
  5. Junio C HamanoMay 1, 2011
  6. Matthieu MoyMay 1, 2011
  7. Jeff KingApr 29, 2011
  8. Sverre RabbelierApr 29, 2011
  9. Mikael MagnussonMay 7, 2011
  10. Andreas SchwabApr 29, 2011
  11. Junio C HamanoApr 30, 2011
  12. Andreas SchwabApr 30, 2011
  13. Michael J GruberMay 2, 2011
  14. Michael J GruberMay 2, 2011
  15. Junio C HamanoMay 2, 2011
  16. Michael J GruberMay 2, 2011
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