From: James Henstridge Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 10:45:50 GMT Subject: Re: VCS comparison table Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <200610201157.22348.jnareb@gmail.com> On 20/10/06, Jakub Narebski wrote: > > What's nice is being able see the revno 753 and knowing that "diff -r > > 752..753" will show the changes it introduced. Checking the revo on a > > branch mirror and knowing how out-of-date it is. > > Huh? If you want what changes have been introduced by commit > c3424aebbf722c1f204931bf1c843e8a103ee143, you just do > > # git diff c3424aebbf722c1f204931bf1c843e8a103ee143 > > (or better "git show" instead of "git diff" or "git diff-tree"). > If you give only one commit (only one revision) git automatically > gives diff to its parent(s). If a revision has multiple parents, what does it diff against in this case? Do you get one diff against each parent revision? James.