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Mark Hollomon <markhollomon@comcast.net> writes:

> I must be misunderstanding this:
>
> 	git whatchanged -p -1 HEAD
>
> in the current git tree results in nothing. only when I get to -5 does it show something.
>
> Is this expected?
>
>> git version
> git version 1.2.4.gea75

In this case what matterks is not the version of your git but
what that HEAD is.  If it is a merge commit, whatchanged -p does
not show anything by default.