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From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Subject: Why does "git log --reverse -1" print the HEAD commit?
Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 17:11:02 +0300
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It feels wrong that "git log -1" and "git log --reverse -1" both print
the same commit: HEAD. Why is that?

Since "git log --reverse" starts from the bottom I'd have expected "-1"
to print one commit from the bottom.