Re: Commit-ish shortcut for immediate parent range

Linus Torvalds wrote:

Now, "git show" obviously does exactly what you probably wanted, but for 
future reference, the "git log" family of commands also take a "number of 
commits" limiter.

So you can also do things like

        git log --cc -1 X

and it will actually do something very similar to "git show". It's not 
_quite_ identical, but it's close - at least for the special case of a 
single commit.

And of course this shortcut is not documented. git-log(1) and
git-rev-list(1) talks only about "--max-count=<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)?
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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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