Re: git alias question

From: Dave Borowitz <dborowitz@google.com>
Date: Dec 29, 2011, 17:08 UTC
Message-ID: <CAD0k6qTp9sKCb==Jh1vuLuZoxx99Kt2Z=VAbjYbGaUE7nbOxdQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 17:27, Michael Horowitz <michael.horowitz@ieee.org> wrote:

> ldiff = "!git diff `git rev-list --reverse -n 2 HEAD -- $1` -- $1"

FWIW, you can also do this as:
  ldiff = log -p -1 --format=format: --

> ldifft = "!git difftool `git rev-list --reverse -n 2 HEAD -- $1` -- $1"

I don't know that you can do something equivalent with difftool. I suppose you could do the above with "GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF=<some difftool wrapper> git ldiff", but that's not very helpful.