Re: [PATCH] Documentation/git-reset.txt: Use HEAD~N syntax everywhere (unify examples)
From: Johannes Schindelin <hidden> Date: 2016-06-15 22:44:09
Hi,
On Sat, 2 Feb 2008, Jari Aalto wrote:
The examples in the documentation refer to multiple ~N commits. To Keep
the exampels unified with the same syntax, use ~N in all examples.
AFAIR it was already shot down. Personally, I think it is not expecting
too much of people to have the ambiguity between ~1 and ^1. Even worse,
if you hide the ^-syntax from new users, they will be puzzled how to
access the different parents of merge commits.
Ciao,
Dscho