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From: Robert Watson <robert.oo.watson@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: command to show diff of a commit
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 15:25:01 +0100
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On 9/22/05, Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> wrote:
> Dear diary, on Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 11:58:32AM CEST, I got a letter
> where Robert Watson <robert.oo.watson@gmail.com> told me that...
> > Hi,
>
> Hi,
>
> > I am wondering what is the best way to show the change introduced by a
> > commit. In the other words, is there a better way to do this:
> >
> > git-diff b163512d4eb36ee946908b682c7863658c5a8db4^
> > b163512d4eb36ee946908b682c7863658c5a8db4
>
> with Cogito, you would say
>
>         cg-diff -p -r b163512d4eb36ee946908b682c7863658c5a8db4
>
> to see the diff against its parent. (You should still choose the parent
> manually in case of merge commits.)
>

Thanks, it is nice to know that cogito can go it.  But can I achieve
the same with git-core only?

Thanks,
Robertoo