On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 08:45:39 -0800 (PST), Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> > Although if you have reflog enabled on your current branch there
> > is a 1 character shorter syntax:
> >
> > 	gitk HEAD@{1}..
>
> Heh. With a finnish keyboard, that "@" is AltGr+'2', and the '{'/'}' is
> AltGr+'7'/'0', I guarantee that it's not "1 character shorter", it's
> "three pretty complicated characters longer" and "off the normal path
> where you hold your fingers on the keyboard ;)

It's not even all that convenient on a U.S. keyboard. My pinky suffers
a bit having to pop on and off of shift for the '{', '1', '}'. Then
again, I don't like having to hold shift down for all of ORIG_HEAD
either, (but it's definitely easier in comparison).

But since reflog does everything ORIG_HEAD does and more, shall we
just clean up the syntax somehow? Ideas anyone? And then fix the
documentation to explain that?

-Carl