Re: [PATCH 4/5] git-log.txt: rewrite note on why "--" may be required

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Apr 21, 2013, 07:46 UTC
Message-ID: <7vzjwsuxzp.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <CALkWK0kiT7vggXgqGs2iiMooiw7TyJEgr2=Yy06S7H1NKiWJ3g@mail.gmail.com>

Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:

> ... and what about 'git log HEAD^!'?  Is that a range?

Of course it _is_ a range; didn't you read it in the "specifying ranges" section? It is a short-hand for "include HEAD, exclude its parents", and you can further combine it with other starting points.

> What about 'git log HEAD:README' (hint: it doesn't error out)?

Sounds like a bug, if it doesn't.

Patches welcome---I suspect that it can be solved the same way as the recent cherry-pick patch by Miklos.

> I would argue that "A B" is not inherently a revision range, but
> rather two revisions.  It's upto different commands to interpret
> it differently.

That is why I said this is "git log", not "git show".