Re: [git-users] Re: Is there a short-hand for referring to the first commit?

On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 1:40 AM, Konstantin Khomoutov wrote: > git-rebase supports the "--root [BRANCH]" command-line option to refer > to the root commit of the current (or specified) branch. See [1] for more > info. Exactly what I wanted, thank you, Konstantin. Sam -- You received this messa

[git-users] Re: Is there a short-hand for referring to the first commit?

On Friday, September 12, 2014 11:36:05 PM UTC+4, Sam Roberts wrote: > > There are shorthands for going back from HEAD, but not for the initial > commit, AFAICT. > > I often want to do this when rebasing, and have come to tagging the > initial commit in my repos with INITIAL. > > Is there a bett