Stefan Näwe <stefan.na...@gmail.com> writes: > Zeeshan Ali (Khattak <zeeshanak <at> gnome.org> writes: >> >> Many times I want to refer to 'HEAD^', 'HEAD^^' and sometimes even >> further up the tree. It would be really nice if I didn't have to type >> 'HEAD^' but could only type '^'. Bash completion make things easier >> but it automatically inserts a space immediately after HEAD so you >> have to hit backspace. I think this change would be good in general >> anyway. > > Or even '~1', '~3'.
"^" has a problem when used with other things (does "log ^^2 origin" mean "log HEAD^2..origin"? Or "log HEAD^^2 origin"), so I do not think it would never fly as an abbreviated syntax. While I see your "~<N>" much distasteful compared to "^", you still need to be a bit more careful when analysing the benefit of such an abbreviation. To shells used by many people, these mean tilde expansion ~<N> to refer to elements on the dirstack and you need to quote, perhaps like \~3. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
