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Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/5] Fix parsing of @{-1}@{1}
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 12:02:33 -0800
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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> To do that, Git no longer looks forward for the '@{' corresponding to the
> closing '}' but backward, and dwim_ref() as well as dwim_log() learnt
> about the @{-<N>} notation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
> ---
>
> 	The modifications of dwim_ref() and dwim_log() are probably
> 	more important than the issue I tried to fix...

Good, so we can say things like:

	git log -g @{-1}
        git show-branch -g @{-1}

with this?

By the way, I noticed that without these patch series we show something
when "git rev-parse --verify @{-1}" is asked for.  What is it trying to
show?