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From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Subject: Re: Why does "git log --reverse -1" print the HEAD commit?
Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 17:33:27 +0300
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Miklos Vajna wrote (2008-05-31 16:24 +0200):

> On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 05:11:02PM +0300, Teemu Likonen
> <tlikonen@iki.fi> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> -1 limits the commit list to one element and then it prints that range
> in reverse order, which is the same for a single commit.

Oh yeah, that's the logic, thanks. I find it counter-intuitive but I'll
survive.