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

* Jakub Narebski [off-list ref] wrote:

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   But Git didnt recognize that as a valid commit range.

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^!

nice! :-)

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

   Ah, there's "git-log -R" that would achieve this. 

I think you should have done this first...

to read the man page? Nobody reads the manuals, except in grave 
circumstances ;-)

(Seriously, i usually try to guess around a lot with shell commands just 
to figure out new things, and to see how intuitive they are.)

	Ingo