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

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 01:07:03 +0100

Jari Aalto <[email-masked]> writes:

> 2010-12-02 00:06 Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>:
>> And "HEAD^" is shorter and much easier to type
>
> I don't know in which part of world that is, probably only using US
> keyboard. Not so elsewhere with keyboards more than just only ASCII
> characters.

On a German keyboard ~ is awkward to type (AltGr-+) whereas ^ is on an
unshifted key.

Andreas.

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