From: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:19:23 GMT
Subject: Re: gitk dev branch: F5 gives error after commit
Message-ID: <e5bfff550801071019q50f62800t866d4570c7847731@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <478258B6.20006@viscovery.net>

On Jan 7, 2008 5:52 PM, Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> wrote:
> I use the dev branch of gitk (on Windows), commit 476ca63 (gitk: Index
> [fnvr]highlights by id rather than row).
>
> 1. Start it with:
>
>     gitk --all -300
>
> 2. Make a commit.
> 3. Hit F5. Here I see the error message:
>
>    Error reading commits:
>    fatal: bad revision '^-300'
>

Windows command line does not handles the  ^ symbol.

Try open a console with cmd.exe and type

git log HEAD^


Marco