From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 21:15:20 GMT
Subject: Re: breakage in revision traversal with pathspec
Message-ID: <xmqqa9jjrrfb.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <5230C6E3.3080406@bracey.fi>

Kevin Bracey <kevin@bracey.fi> writes:

> To see the effect at the command line: "git log v1.8.3..v.1.8.4" hides
> the merge, but "git log ^v1.8.3 v1.8.4" shows it. Whoops. A new
> example of a dotty shorthand not being exactly equivalent.
>
> In the ".." case the v1.8.3 tag gets peeled before being sent to
> add_rev_cmdline , and the "mark bottom commits" logic works. But in
> the "^" case, the v1.8.3 doesn't get peeled.

That sounds like a bug.  ^v1.8.3 should mark v1.8.3^0 as
uninteresting.