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From: Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git-log --cherry-pick gives different results when using tag
 or tag^{}
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 10:59:53 +0100
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On 01/15/2014 10:49 AM, Jeff King wrote:
> [+cc Junio, as the bug blames to him]
> 
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 02:15:40PM +0100, Francis Moreau wrote:
> 
>> In mykernel repository, I'm having 2 different behaviours with git-log
>> but I don't understand why:
>>
>> Doing:
>>
>>     $ git log --oneline --cherry-pick --left-right v3.4.71-1^{}...next
>>
>> and
>>
>>     $ git log --oneline --cherry-pick --left-right v3.4.71-1...next
>>
>> give something different (where v3.4.71-1 is a tag).
>>
>> The command using ^{} looks the one that gives correct result I think.
> 
> Yeah, this looks like a bug. Here's a simple reproduction recipe:

Thanks a lot Jeff for your good analyze.