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

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 23, 2007, 17:52 UTC
Message-ID: <ern9gn$h4d$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070222193625.GA4489@pasky.or.cz>

Petr Baudis wrote:

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> On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 08:17:17PM CET, Bill Lear wrote:
>> Git "indexing" of commits has a way to "go back":
>> 
>> % git diff HEAD~3
>> 
>> Can I say "all the way back", or "all the way back - 1" somehow?
> 
> What would that mean? :)
> 
> Do you mean to the "root" of the history? The trouble is, there can be
> many of such roots (coming up from merges of previously disjunct
> histories); even the git project itself has several. Which one to
> choose?

Actually HEAD~n follows first parent, so it would be only one such root.

The git project has 4 or 5 roots for mainline + 3 separate disjoint branches with separate roots (html, man, todo).

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Jakub Narebski
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