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From: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante•net>
To: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/git-reset.txt: Use HEAD~N syntax everywhere (unify examples)
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 01:48:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bq6x38lc.fsf@blue.sea.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20080203193024.GV29522@dpotapov.dyndns.org

* Sun 2008-02-03 Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail•com>
* Message-Id: 20080203193024.GV29522@dpotapov•dyndns.org
> ^-syntax is very natural to specify the _previous_ commit. Have you
> notice we usually say "previous", not "one commit before"?

Only if you're grown with git. Everywhere else the concept of HEAD or
TIP is more natural, thus progression:

    HEAD, HEAD~1, HEAD~2

Jari

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-03 23:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-02  1:41 [PATCH] Documentation/git-reset.txt: Use HEAD~N syntax everywhere (unify examples) Jari Aalto
2008-02-02  2:37 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-02  2:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-02-02  8:44   ` Mike Hommey
2008-02-02 12:59     ` Jari Aalto
2008-02-02 13:37       ` Jakub Narebski
2008-02-02 20:10         ` Jari Aalto
2008-02-03  2:07           ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-02 16:18       ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-02-02 20:15         ` Jari Aalto
2008-02-02 22:39           ` Robin Rosenberg
2008-02-02 21:31         ` Junio C Hamano
2008-02-03 19:30       ` Dmitry Potapov
2008-02-03 23:48         ` Jari Aalto [this message]
2008-02-04  0:28           ` Jakub Narebski
2008-02-04 22:33           ` Dmitry Potapov

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