Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/git-reset.txt: Use HEAD~N syntax everywhere (unify examples)

From: Jari Aalto <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 01:48:15 +0200

* Sun 2008-02-03 Dmitry Potapov <[email-masked]>
* Message-Id: [email-masked]
> ^-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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