The Difference Between ∼ and ^
Explore how tilde (~) and caret (^) operators differ in Git for navigating commit history. Understand their use in commands like git show to identify parent commits and improve version control practices.
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These two operators are used in a very similar way, so the difference between the two can be obscure.
Understanding differences by example
Here’s a demonstration of it in its simplest form with another example:
1 mkdir -p lgthw_bisect_2
2 cd lgthw_bisect_2
3 git init
4 touch afile
5 git add afile
6 git commit -am 'Initial commit'
7 git branch abranch
8 git checkout abranch
9 echo 'abranch addition' >> afile
10 git commit -am 'abranch addition'
11 git checkout