Re: [q] git-diff --reverse 7def2be1..7def2be1^

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 20, 2008, 10:05 UTC
Message-ID: <m3d4mcmq20.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <20080620082034.GA24913@elte.hu>

Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> writes:

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> I've got two observations / potential suggestions:
> 
> 1) the SHA1 is duplicated above, is there a way to avoid it? Initially i 
>    tried the obvious extension:
> 
>       git-diff --reverse 7def2be1..^
> 
>    But Git didnt recognize that as a valid commit range.

There is shortcut for rev^..rev, namely rev^! (I'm not sure if it is documented anywhere, though), so you could have used

        git diff 7def2be1^!

>    [ time passes as i read the manpage - the final thing i do when
>      every other measure fails ;-) ]
> 
>    Ah, there's "git-log -R" that would achieve this.

I think you should have done this first...

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