From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:36:25 GMT
Subject: Re: How to say HEAD~"all the way back - 1"
Message-ID: <20070222193625.GA4489@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <17885.60477.53356.123095@lisa.zopyra.com>

On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 08:17:17PM CET, Bill Lear wrote:
> 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?

What would that mean? :)

Do you mean to the "root" of the history? The trouble is, there can be
many of such roots (coming up from merges of previously disjunct
histories); even the git project itself has several. Which one to
choose?

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