Re: Support of '^' as alias for 'HEAD^'

On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 12:26 AM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

"Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" [off-list ref] writes:

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What about '^' and '^^' that I suggested?

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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.

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Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124