Re: [PATCH] git-reset.txt: Use commit~1 notation over commit^

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

And "HEAD^" is shorter and much easier to type, and more importantly, it
is more often used in the wild, so the readers of the documentation needs
to know it anyway to understand what other people do.

Seriously:  People like ^.

This doc change is not good (and seems to demonstrate a lack of
familiarity with typical git usage)....

-Miles

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