Re: [q] git-diff --reverse 7def2be1..7def2be1^

2008/6/20 Jakub Narebski [off-list ref]:

There is shortcut for rev^..rev, namely rev^! (I'm not sure if it is
documented anywhere, though), so you could have used

       git diff 7def2be1^!

quoted

   [ time passes as i read the manpage - the final thing i do when
     every other measure fails ;-) ]

With some grepping, i found this in git-rev-parse,

       Two other shorthands for naming a set that is formed by a
commit and its parent
       commits exists. r1^@ notation means all parents of r1. r1^!
includes commit r1
       but excludes its all parents.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson