From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:07:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-reset.txt: Use commit~1 notation over commit^
Message-ID: <m2pqtlqbq0.fsf@igel.home>
In-Reply-To: <87eia1t8ef.fsf@picasso.cante.net>

Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> writes:

> 2010-12-02 00:06 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:
>> And "HEAD^" is shorter and much easier to type
>
> I don't know in which part of world that is, probably only using US
> keyboard. Not so elsewhere with keyboards more than just only ASCII
> characters.

On a German keyboard ~ is awkward to type (AltGr-+) whereas ^ is on an
unshifted key.

Andreas.

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