From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Sun, 01 May 2011 21:21:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/largely untested/PATCH] sha1_name: interpret ~n as HEAD~n
Message-ID: <vpqsjsy15i0.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <7vfwoys20u.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> "Michael J Gruber" <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> I also see myself getting tempted to say "rebase -i -2" every once in a
> while; it seems to go well with "log -2" especially when the history is
> linear.

I like that. As easy to type (or more, depending on the keyboard) as ~2,
but no nasty interaction with the shell. OTOH, that would be a
special-case for rebase only (i.e. doesn't make "git show HEAD~2" easier
to type), but that's the most common case.

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