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

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: May 1, 2011, 09:04 UTC
Message-ID: <vpqoc3mg5bd.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <1304238652.9638.1446946253@webmail.messagingengine.com>

"Michael J Gruber" <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:

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> On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 09:21 -0700, "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>
> wrote:
>> Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:
>> 
>> > HEAD~n is often used for rebase invocations etc.
>> 
>> I thought rebase invocations these days use @{u}.
>> 
>
> I meant "rebase -i", sorry. And in fact I mostly mean those cases where
> I want to "amend" a commit which is not the top most one.
>
> Michael

... and Junio is right that

  git rebase -i @{u}

usually does the right thing: let you amend any of the unpushed commits.

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Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/