On Sat, 1 Jul 2006, Jakub Narebski wrote:
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> 
> Caret is used twice, with different meaning. As prefix operator "^" means 
> "exclude lineage of commit" (while commit without "^" in front means:
> "include lineage of commit and commit itself"). BTW. why we don't use '!'
> for that?

Using '!' is really nasty with most shells. Avoid, avoid, avoid.

It would be more sensible to use ~ (mathematical negation), but that also 
has magic meaning for shell at the beginning of a word..

			Linus
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