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[Edit: It seems that I was mistaken but I'm leaving this up to illustrate the confusion. In my experience "second to last" isn't common and "next to last" is m
by gwright 7y ago
[Edit: It seems that I was mistaken but I'm leaving this up to illustrate the confusion. In my experience "second to last" isn't common and "next to last" is much more common, which I think is why I was confused because I thought they were different, but apparently they are the same. I wonder if there is a regional usage pattern to these phrases. ]
This seems like mistake or a non-standard usage of the english phrase "second to last". Given a git log of:
$ git log --oneline
15e0437 - (HEAD -> master) this is the third commit
f82d1fd - this is the second commit
9180c17 - initial commit
I would call "f82d1fd" the "next to last commit" and it can be referred to as HEAD~
I would call "9180c17" the "second to last commit" and it can be referred to as HEAD~2
- q3k 7y agoI don't know (definitely not a native English speaker), but Wikitionary seems to agree with me: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/second_to_last#English https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/second_to_last#English .
- gwright 7y agoWell, I think you may be right. See my edit above. I suspect this is a regional usage pattern and I've just always been in places where "next to last" would be used and not "second to last" so I was thinking they were different, but they apparently are the same! Learn something new every day.
- gwright 7y agoHere is an ngram analysis with a British corpus https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=second+last%2Csecond+to+last%2Cnext+to+last&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=18&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Csecond%20last%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Csecond%20to%20last%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cnext%20to%20last%3B%2Cc0#t1%3B%2Csecond%20last%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Csecond%20to%20last%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cnext%20to%20last%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=second+last%2C... And here is one with an American corpus: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=second+last%2Csecond+to+last%2Cnext+to+last&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=17&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Csecond%20last%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Csecond%20to%20last%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cnext%20to%20last%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=second+last%2C...
- q3k 7y agoNice tool. You should expand the search range to include 2018/2019. Quite a significant change happened since then.