From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 20:53:57 GMT
Subject: Re: How to say HEAD~"all the way back - 1"
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702222153010.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <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...)

Ciao,
Dscho