Re: [PATCH] Fix git rev-list --reverse --max-count=N

From

Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>

Date

Jan 27, 2010, 22:09 UTC

Message-ID

<201001272309.26054.j6t@kdbg.org>

In-Reply-To

<1264622600-20981-1-git-send-email-spang@google.com>

On Mittwoch, 27. Januar 2010, Michael Spang wrote:

> Using --max-count with --reverse currently outputs the last N commits
> in the final output rather than the first N commits. We want to
> truncate the reversed list after the first few commits, rather than
> truncating the initial list and reversing that.

So when you have this history (A is oldest, D is newest):

   A--B--C--D

and you say

   git log --max-count=2 --reverse D

then you want

   A
   B

but I want

   C
   D

Why is your interpretation correct, an mine wrong?

-- Hannes