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Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> I encountered another example yesterday after sending the above message
>> [*1*].  I was fixing one small bug, and had a commit that updates code and
>> adds a test vector.  It is a single commit on top of the current branch
>> tip, which allegedly as a buggy code.
>>
>> Then I wanted to double check that the bug really existed before the fix.
>>
>> 	git checkout HEAD^
>>         git show @{-1} t/ | git apply
>
> Alternative:
>           git checkout @{-1} t/

True in this case, but that is usable when "diff @{-1}^ @{-1}" happens to
be the _only_ change to your current state, so it won't be a general
substitute for the "diff | apply" pipeline.