Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-reset.txt: Use commit~1 notation over commit^

From: Miles Bader <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 11:46:08 +0900

Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]> writes:
> And "HEAD^" is shorter and much easier to type, and more importantly, it
> is more often used in the wild, so the readers of the documentation needs
> to know it anyway to understand what other people do.

Seriously:  People like ^.

This doc change is not good (and seems to demonstrate a lack of
familiarity with typical git usage)....

-Miles

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