From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 08 May 2012 18:00:50 GMT
Subject: Re: git-scm.com refresh
Message-ID: <7vpqaev9gt.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <m262c6h8ft.fsf@igel.home>

Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> I encountered another example yesterday after sending the above message
>> [*1*].  I was fixing one small bug, and had a commit that updates code and
>> adds a test vector.  It is a single commit on top of the current branch
>> tip, which allegedly as a buggy code.
>>
>> Then I wanted to double check that the bug really existed before the fix.
>>
>> 	git checkout HEAD^
>>         git show @{-1} t/ | git apply
>
> Alternative:
>           git checkout @{-1} t/

True in this case, but that is usable when "diff @{-1}^ @{-1}" happens to
be the _only_ change to your current state, so it won't be a general
substitute for the "diff | apply" pipeline.