Re: Support of '^' as alias for 'HEAD^'
Am 15.07.2012 00:24, schrieb Zeeshan Ali (Khattak): On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 12:26 AM, Junio C Hamanogits...@pobox.com wrote: Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)zeesha...@gnome.org writes: What about '^' and '^^' that I suggested? If you want a shortcut, you might try this: echo ref: HEAD .git/h Then you can use 'h' instead of 'HEAD'. Tested it and it seemed to work. If not someone on this list surely will correct me. -- 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
Re: Support of '^' as alias for 'HEAD^'
Zeeshan Ali (Khattak zeeshanak at gnome.org writes: Hi, 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'. Where's the '+1' button...? Stefan -- 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
Re: Support of '^' as alias for 'HEAD^'
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
Re: Support of '^' as alias for 'HEAD^'
Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com writes: 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 s/dist/less dist/; sorry ;-) 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
Re: Support of '^' as alias for 'HEAD^'
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 11:34 PM, Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com wrote: Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com writes: 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. What about '^' and '^^' that I suggested? While I see your ~N much distasteful compared to ^, you still s/dist/less dist/; sorry ;-) Why? 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. That would kinda beat the purpose I think, would be nice to just type 1 key rather than 3 to refer to HEAD (2 keys would still be good enough IMHO). -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 -- 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
Re: Support of '^' as alias for 'HEAD^'
Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) zeesha...@gnome.org writes: What about '^' and '^^' that I suggested? While I see your ~N much distasteful compared to ^, you still s/dist/less dist/; sorry ;-) Why? That ^^ is the most important reason why your ^ is the same as HEAD^ is flawed, and goes against my taste. Think what log ^^ origin would mean. Is it log ^HEAD^ origin? Is it log HEAD^^ origin? They mean totally different things. Compared to that, at least ~n does not have such ambiguity within the context of Git (having to quote is an ambiguity within the context of using Git with shells that support dirstacks in their tilde expansion). -- 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
Re: Support of '^' as alias for 'HEAD^'
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 12:26 AM, Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com wrote: Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) zeesha...@gnome.org writes: What about '^' and '^^' that I suggested? While I see your ~N much distasteful compared to ^, you still s/dist/less dist/; sorry ;-) Why? That ^^ is the most important reason why your ^ is the same as HEAD^ is flawed, and goes against my taste. Think what log ^^ origin would mean. Is it log ^HEAD^ origin? Is it log HEAD^^ origin? They mean totally different things. Sorry for my ignorance here but what does ^ *before* HEAD even mean? I tried playing with different combinations of ^ and HEAD here (e.g ^HEAD^, ^HEAD^^, ^HEAD^^^) with both log and show commands but git just silently returns on them. Is this ^ before HEAD actually used cause I have never seen/heard of that before. Google isn't able to help either. Compared to that, at least ~n does not have such ambiguity within the context of Git (having to quote is an ambiguity within the context of using Git with shells that support dirstacks in their tilde expansion). Don't know whats dirstacks support either but that I guess just means that bash (the shell I have always used) doesn't do that. -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 -- 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
