How to say HEAD~"all the way back - 1"

From: Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>
Date: Feb 22, 2007, 19:17 UTC
Message-ID: <17885.60477.53356.123095@lisa.zopyra.com>

Git "indexing" of commits has a way to "go back":

% git diff HEAD~3

Can I say "all the way back", or "all the way back - 1" somehow?

Bill

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