Git relative revision numbers

Question

Is it possible (somehow) to have in Git (local) relative revision (commit) numbers, like in Mercurial 0, 1, 2, 3, ... instead of short hashes?

Answer 1

Just use:

• master~10 to get the 10th last commit on branch master.
• master^ to get the second last commit on branch master.
• master^^ to get the third last commit on branch master.

They can even be combined: master^^~5^.

master can be any branch name (local or remote) or HEAD to reference the current commit.

You can use master^2 to get the second merge parent.