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From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
To: Aghiles <aghilesk@gmail.com>
Cc: git list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: potential improvement to 'git log' with a range
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 01:33:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <i2kfabb9a1e1004091633nc70f2f19hd16ea9704f0933b0@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <w2j3abd05a91004091624mb2836ff4v118a1ae9ac5ca6e7@mail.gmail.com>

Heya,

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 01:24, Aghiles <aghilesk@gmail.com> wrote:
> If I type:
>
>    git log FETCH_HEAD~4..HEAD
>
> I get something. But if I type:
>
>    git log HEAD..FETCH_HEAD~4
>
> I get nothing. Is there a good reason for that ?

Yes, read up on the documentation as to what ".." means. Hint, a \ b
is not the same as b \ a [0].

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersection_(set_theory)

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-04-09 23:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-09 23:24 potential improvement to 'git log' with a range Aghiles
2010-04-09 23:33 ` Santi Béjar
2010-04-09 23:33 ` Sverre Rabbelier [this message]
2010-04-10  0:13   ` Aghiles
2010-04-10  0:16     ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-04-10  1:20     ` Linus Torvalds
2010-04-11 20:31       ` Aghiles
2010-04-11 21:32       ` Jakub Narebski
2010-06-23 17:05         ` Martin Geisler
2010-06-23 18:02           ` Jakub Narebski
2010-06-23 19:19             ` Martin Geisler
2010-06-23 21:24               ` Jakub Narebski
2010-06-23 22:04                 ` Martin Geisler
2010-06-23 19:36       ` Jay Soffian
2010-06-23 20:26         ` Junio C Hamano
2010-06-23 20:45           ` Jay Soffian
2010-06-24 20:31           ` Junio C Hamano
2010-06-24 22:49             ` Jay Soffian

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