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List:       git
Subject:    Re: [RFC/largely untested/PATCH] sha1_name: interpret ~n as HEAD~n
From:       Andreas Schwab <schwab () linux-m68k ! org>
Date:       2011-04-30 9:09:47
Message-ID: m21v0kw1es.fsf () igel ! home
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
>
>> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>>
>>> It also conflicts a little with the shell's "~user" syntax, though
>>> presumably you don't have users named "1" and "2".
>>
>> Well, you sorta do if you did use pushd.
>
> Yeah, I was also worried about that.  Or some arcane system
> misinterpreting "~0" as the home directory of root ;-)

On non-arcane systems ~0 is expanded to the current directory.

Andreas.

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