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potential improvement to 'git log' with a range

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AAghiles <aghilesk@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 9, 2010, 23:24 UTC
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If I type:
    git log FETCH_HEAD~4..HEAD
I get something. But if I type:
    git log HEAD..FETCH_HEAD~4
I get nothing. Is there a good reason for that ?
  -- aghiles
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