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Subject: --max-count useless with git-rev-list's --reverse
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 20:17:38 +0100
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On git.git, this works as expected, gives me the first 3 commits:

   $ git rev-list --reverse origin/master | head -n 3
    e83c5163316f89bfbde7d9ab23ca2e25604af290
    8bc9a0c769ac1df7820f2dbf8f7b7d64835e3c68
    e497ea2a9b6c378f01d092c210af20cbee762475

Why is this so useless about ignoring the --reverse option, is this my
design (these are the 3 *latest* commits):

    $ git rev-list --reverse origin/master --max-count=3
    08fd8710e277eed73a21c6c5483c57bfeb14e8a7
    6d74e5c9dbe71e2eb63c6e8862ec979e9a5f068b
    07873dc5dd67398324278ff0d7627bb1a863ba89
    $ git rev-list origin/master --max-count=3
    07873dc5dd67398324278ff0d7627bb1a863ba89
    6d74e5c9dbe71e2eb63c6e8862ec979e9a5f068b
    08fd8710e277eed73a21c6c5483c57bfeb14e8a7

>>From the manpage:

   --reverse
       Output the commits in reverse order. Cannot be combined with
--walk-reflogs.

Shouldn't --reverse be applied *before* --max-count?