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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next prev parent 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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