Re: How to say HEAD~"all the way back - 1"

From

Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

Date

Feb 22, 2007, 20:53 UTC

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<Pine.LNX.4.63.0702222153010.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

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<20070222204737.GC18622@fieldses.org>

Hi,

On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, J. Bruce Fields wrote:

> I can do something like
> 
> 	git rev-list origin..topic | tail -2 | head -1
> 
> but in practice it's faster just to fire up gitk origin.. and
> cut-n-paste object id's.

Or something like

	git rev-list --reverse origin..topic | sed -n 2p

But that's even longer! (Although conceptually shorter...)