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Commit-ish shortcut for immediate parent range

From
APAndy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 22, 2006, 14:48 UTC
Message-ID
<200610221548.42048.andyparkins@gmail.com>
Hello,

Git's commit-ish is very powerful. I was wondering however, if there was a shortcut for (for example)?

 git-diff 3435fdb4c^..3435fdb4c
That is - the short range of a particular commit's parent to that commit; like
 git-diff 3435fdb4c!
Or similar.
Andy
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