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

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:

> >    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^!

nice! :-)

> >    [ 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...

to read the man page? Nobody reads the manuals, except in grave 
circumstances ;-)

(Seriously, i usually try to guess around a lot with shell commands just 
to figure out new things, and to see how intuitive they are.)

	Ingo