From: Andreas Schwab Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 09:09:47 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC/largely untested/PATCH] sha1_name: interpret ~n as HEAD~n Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vfwp0uwu4.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Junio C Hamano writes: > Andreas Schwab writes: > >> Jeff King 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. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."