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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Commit-ish shortcut for immediate parent range
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 23:41:57 +0200
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Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Now, "git show" obviously does exactly what you probably wanted, but =
for=20
> future reference, the "git log" family of commands also take a "numbe=
r of=20
> commits" limiter.
>=20
> So you can also do things like
>=20
> =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0git log --cc -1 X
>=20
> and it will actually do something very similar to "git show". It's no=
t=20
> _quite_ identical, but it's close - at least for the special case of =
a=20
> single commit.

And of course this shortcut is not documented. git-log(1) and
git-rev-list(1) talks only about "--max-count=3D<n>", and "-n <n>",
and doesn't talk about possible shortcuts "-n<n>" and "-<n>".
Perhaps because those shortcuts are discouraged?

Additionally you can find "-n <n>" shortcut only further on
the git-rev-list(1).


Patch will follow.

BTW. what does "recursive diff" mean (in git)?
--=20
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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