Re: unexpected behavior with `git log --skip filename`

From: Andrew McNabb <amcnabb@mcnabbs.org>
Date: Oct 8, 2011, 02:36 UTC
Message-ID: <20111008023637.GA18136@mcnabbs.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAG+J_DwnUOeDTiUW-UUJGLLg8jJ4EhXN21B7o_hOMnyowM9a8g@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 05:54:36PM -0400, Jay Soffian wrote:

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> Hmm:
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> $ git log --oneline GIT-VERSION-GEN | head -2
> 7f41b6bbe3 Post 1.7.7 first wave
> 703f05ad58 Git 1.7.7
> 
> $ git log --oneline --skip=1 -n 1 GIT-VERSION-GEN
> 703f05ad58 Git 1.7.7

I went back to reproduce this, and I think I may have been using the --follow option earlier. In my private repository, git log gives identical output for the last two commits when I don't specify --skip:

$ git log -n 2 --oneline httpd.conf.orig f0026e9 updated many of the *.orig files to the latest version e57e840 moved the .orig files into place, too $ git log --follow -n 2 --oneline httpd.conf.orig f0026e9 updated many of the *.orig files to the latest version e57e840 moved the .orig files into place, too $

But when I specify --skip=1, the output is different:

$ git log -n 1 --skip=1 --oneline httpd.conf.orig e57e840 moved the .orig files into place, too $ git log --follow -n 1 --skip=1 --oneline httpd.conf.orig f0026e9 updated many of the *.orig files to the latest version $

GIT-VERSION-GEN example that you shared, I don't notice this difference. It's not immediately obvious to me what's different between the two examples.

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