From: Mark Hollomon <markhollomon@comcast.net>
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 23:26:48 GMT
Subject: Re: What should I use instead of git show?
Message-ID: <4415FFB8.3000001@comcast.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0603130830050.3618@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> 	git whatchanged -p -1 <sha1>
> 
> instead (actually, if your git is really old, you shouldn't use the modern 
> shorthand of "-1", you should use the longer "--max-count=1" instead).

I must be misunderstanding this:

	git whatchanged -p -1 HEAD

in the current git tree results in nothing. only when I get to -5 does it show something.

Is this expected?

 > git version
git version 1.2.4.gea75

-- 
Mark Hollomon