Subject: Re: [RFC/largely untested/PATCH] sha1_name: interpret ~n as HEAD~n

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 11:09:47 +0200

Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]> writes:

> Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> Jeff King <[email-masked]> writes:
>>
>>> It also conflicts a little with the shell's "~user" syntax, though
>>> presumably you don't have users named "1" and "2".
>>
>> Well, you sorta do if you did use pushd.
>
> Yeah, I was also worried about that.  Or some arcane system
> misinterpreting "~0" as the home directory of root ;-)

On non-arcane systems ~0 is expanded to the current directory.

Andreas.

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