Re: Newbie falls at first hurdle

Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] writes:

In other words, you'd have to explain what "pu^2~3" means.

And octopus merges, for that matter. I don't think the tutorial ever 
explains those.

Sorry, my excuses are (1) I just did a quick example from a tree
I had handy -- my live tree; (2) as long as the user knows the
commit show-branch labeled with the cryptic "pu^2~3" is the one
s/he wants, it does not matter much what that label exactly
means.

But of course you are right.