Re: [q] git-diff --reverse 7def2be1..7def2be1^

From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date: Jun 20, 2008, 13:52 UTC
Message-ID: <20080620135236.GC8135@elte.hu>
In-Reply-To: <m3d4mcmq20.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

* Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:

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> >    But Git didnt recognize that as a valid commit range.
> 
> There is shortcut for rev^..rev, namely rev^! (I'm not sure if it is 
> documented anywhere, though), so you could have used
> 
>         git diff 7def2be1^!

nice! :-)

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> >    [ time passes as i read the manpage - the final thing i do when
> >      every other measure fails ;-) ]
> > 
> >    Ah, there's "git-log -R" that would achieve this. 
> 
> I think you should have done this first...

to read the man page? Nobody reads the manuals, except in grave circumstances ;-)

(Seriously, i usually try to guess around a lot with shell commands just to figure out new things, and to see how intuitive they are.)

	Ingo