From: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:02:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [q] git-diff --reverse 7def2be1..7def2be1^
Message-ID: <237967ef0806200602v6b95939fm2663be849799e2de@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <m3d4mcmq20.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

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.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson