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From: Anatoly Borodin <anatoly.borodin@gmail.com>
Subject: git show -m with a parent number
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2016 20:46:02 +0000 (UTC)
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Hi All,


is there a good reason for `git show -m` to not accept the number of a
parent of a merge commit? I can run `git show --first-parent COMMIT`,
but need to write `git diff COMMIT^2 COMMIT` every time I want to diff
with the second parent!

`git cherry-pick -m 2 COMMIT` works, so why can't `git log` work like
that?


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Mit freundlichen Gr=C3=BC=C3=9Fen,
Anatoly Borodin