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

Jari Aalto [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

It doesn't matter.  There needs to be a better reason than "Jari doesn't
like it."

This has nothing to do with liking. It how infomation is read. When
information is consistent, it lessens cognitive load.

No, it has to do with your trying to impose your personal tastes.

^ (and ^^, etc) is a simpler and easier concept to deal with, and
sufficient for the vast majority of tasks -- beyond 1 or 2 levels,
it's typically easier to just use an absolute reference cut-and-pasted
from git log output than it is to count commits and get the right
value to use with ~ (and from experience, unless you're careful, it's
very easy to get counts for ~ wrong).  So it's ~ that's the "expert
notation", not ^.

[How do I know?   Because I've _been_ a git beginner, and spent a long
time trying to learn git.]

-Miles

-- 
Discriminate, v.i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is,
if possible, more objectionable than another.

| ^ (and ^^, etc) is a simpler and easier concept to deal with, and
| ... very easy to get counts for ~ wrong).  So it's ~ that's the
| "expert notation", not ^.

Not that it matters, but have you happende to notice that all git
outputs use

    commit~N

notation. Not the

    commit^

Jari