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

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 20, 2008, 13:13 UTC
Message-ID: <200806201513.51034.jnareb@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <237967ef0806200602v6b95939fm2663be849799e2de@mail.gmail.com>

Mikael Magnusson wrote:

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> 2008/6/20 Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>:
> 
>> 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^!
>>
>>>    [ time passes as i read the manpage - the final thing i do when
>>>      every other measure fails ;-) ]
> 
> With some grepping, i found this in git-rev-parse,
> 
>        Two other shorthands for naming a set that is formed by a commit and its parent
>        commits exists. r1^@ notation means all parents of r1. r1^! includes commit r1
>        but excludes its all parents.

A bit strange is that neither "git rev-parse pu^!" nor "git rev-parse pu^@" work, while the same works with git-rev-list. WTF?

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Jakub Narebski
Poland