Re: base

[Leo]

On 2010-08-24 18:35 +0100, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> It's true that specification of revisions in git is unfamiliar. But
> both hg and bzr have been forced to add git notation by popular
> demand. And I think it would be very odd for someone who's familiar
> with operators like "nthcdr" (which is "~" in git revision notation)
> to complain about it. It's rare to need any other notation (except in
> quite specialized situations).

Most of time the revision notations can be ignored. I didn't know any
revision notations for a long time but still productive thanks to magit.
A ~200 lines of document is there ('git help revisions' to see it) so I
feel confident because I can just look it up whenever I need it.

Leo