It's in 'specifying revisions' sections of various man pages.
The two symbols are counting depth, then which parent to take (rather than the
first) as you back track through the DAG graph og the commit history.
Philip
- Original Message -
From: dexter ietf
To: git-users@googlegro
On Thu, 1 Aug 2013 22:25:10 -0700 (PDT)
dexter ietf wrote:
> what's the meaning of the following in git name-rev output.
> i know the commit went into 100.15 version, but what to make
> of ^2~4^2~1, any pointer to documentation ?
>
> tags/100.15^2~4^2~1
Please see the gitrevisions manual page
> From: Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen
>
> > My general environment is Fedora Linux, using the X Windows system. I
> > use vtwm as a window manager, so I don't have all the
> > KDE/Gnome/whatever accessories. Much of my work is done inside Emacs,
> > which has a wide array of tools for browsing th
On 2 Aug 2013 23:02, "Dale R. Worley" wrote:
>
> > From: Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen
> >
> > > My general environment is Fedora Linux, using the X Windows system. I
> > > use vtwm as a window manager, so I don't have all the
> > > KDE/Gnome/whatever accessories. Much of my work is done inside Emac
> From: Alex Lewis
>
> Does http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Git do what you want?
No, nothing I found listed there seemed to be really helpful.
> ...Apologies if you already know what I discuss below but I just thought
> I'd put it here just in case it helps...
>
> So if I understand your scen