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From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
To: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] revisions.txt: mention <rev>~ form
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2019 16:59:43 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACsJy8DB3k=9PaQT4CBz-K3=yjQ1oJAtz6p00PAOjy047XvAyA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18c8ed70602271a28c93df922eb3da8fb7563e2e.1555913472.git.liu.denton@gmail.com>

On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 1:14 PM Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> In revisions.txt, the '<rev>^' form is mentioned but the '<rev>~' form
> is missing. Although both forms are essentially equivalent (they each
> get the first parent of the specified revision), we should mention the
> latter for completeness. Make this change.

Do we really support this, or is it a bug in rev parsing code that
treats <rev>~ like <rev>~1?

Hmm.. digging... ah 621ff67594 (rev-parse: fix meaning of rev~ vs
rev~0., 2008-03-14) at least it's not an unintended bahaviour.
-- 
Duy

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-04-22 10:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-22  6:12 [PATCH] revisions.txt: mention <rev>~ form Denton Liu
2019-04-22  6:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-04-22  7:39   ` Denton Liu
2019-04-22 11:21     ` Junio C Hamano
2019-04-22  9:59 ` Duy Nguyen [this message]
2019-04-24  1:05   ` Junio C Hamano
2019-04-26 20:55 ` Andreas Heiduk
2019-04-26 21:16   ` Denton Liu
2019-04-27 12:15 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] cleanup revisions.txt Denton Liu
2019-04-27 12:15   ` [PATCH v2 1/3] revisions.txt: change "rev" to "<rev>" Denton Liu
2019-04-27 12:16   ` [PATCH v2 2/3] revisions.txt: mark optional rev arguments with [] Denton Liu
2019-05-03  7:17     ` Andreas Heiduk
2019-05-03  7:35       ` Andreas Heiduk
2019-04-27 12:16   ` [PATCH v2 3/3] revisions.txt: mention <rev>~ form Denton Liu
2019-05-03  8:01   ` [PATCH v2 0/3] cleanup revisions.txt Andreas Heiduk
2019-05-03  8:13     ` Denton Liu

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