From: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 14:24:08 GMT
Subject: Re: Why does "git log --reverse -1" print the HEAD commit?
Message-ID: <20080531142408.GL29404@genesis.frugalware.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080531141102.GA3035@mithlond.arda.local>

On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 05:11:02PM +0300, Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> wrote:
> It feels wrong that "git log -1" and "git log --reverse -1" both print
> the same commit: HEAD. Why is that?
> 
> Since "git log --reverse" starts from the bottom I'd have expected "-1"
> to print one commit from the bottom.

-1 limits the commit list to one element and then it prints that range
in reverse order, which is the same for a single commit.