From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
To: Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to say HEAD~"all the way back - 1"
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 20:36:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070222193625.GA4489@pasky.or.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17885.60477.53356.123095@lisa.zopyra.com>
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?
--
Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/
The meaning of Stonehenge in Traflamadorian, when viewed from above, is:
"Replacement part being rushed with all possible speed."
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Sirens from Titan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-22 19:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-22 19:17 How to say HEAD~"all the way back - 1" Bill Lear
2007-02-22 19:36 ` Petr Baudis [this message]
2007-02-23 17:52 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-02-23 17:56 ` Bill Lear
2007-02-24 9:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-22 20:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-22 20:24 ` Bill Lear
2007-02-22 20:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-02-22 20:47 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-02-22 20:53 ` Johannes Schindelin
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