Re: How to say HEAD~"all the way back - 1"

[Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>]

Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com> writes:

> Exactly what I was after.  Something like:
>
> % git diff HEAD~-1
>
> or
>
> % git diff ^HEAD~0
>
> whatever ...

<amusement>

        $ git rev-parse HEAD~4096
        fatal: ambiguous argument 'HEAD~4096': unknown revision or path ...
        $ git rev-parse HEAD~2048
        231af8322...
        $ git rev-parse HEAD~3072
        723c31fea...
        $ git rev-parse HEAD~3584
        ....
        $ git rev-parse HEAD_3952
        e83c5163316f89bfbde7d9ab23ca2e25604af290

</amusement>

If you somehow need to know where the root is all the time, you
could do the above once and say:

	$ git tag root-commit e83c5163316f89bfbde7d9ab23ca2e25604af290