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From: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Subject: Re: Bug with rev-list --reverse?
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 11:26:44 +0100
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On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 05:17:14AM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> If I do these:
> 
> % git log --oneline -1 v1.8.1.5^..v1.8.1.6
> % git log --oneline --reverse -1 v1.8.1.5^..v1.8.1.6
> 
> I expect to get a different output, and not both showing v1.8.1.6.
> Wouldn't you agree?

I expect to get the same output.  This is probably because I consider
--reverse to be an output filter.  So I expect to show the commits
"v1.8.1.5^..v1.8.1.6 -1" which selects a single commit and then show
that in reverse order.