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From: Aghiles <aghilesk@gmail.com>
Subject: potential improvement to 'git log' with a range
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 19:24:30 -0400
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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 ?

  -- aghiles