On Friday, February 23, 2007 at 18:52:22 (+0100) Jakub Narebski writes:
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>Petr Baudis wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 08:17:17PM CET, Bill Lear wrote:
>>> Git "indexing" of commits has a way to "go back":
>>> 
>>> % git diff HEAD~3
>>> 
>>> Can I say "all the way back", or "all the way back - 1" somehow?
>> 
>> What would that mean? :)
>> 
>> Do you mean to the "root" of the history? The trouble is, there can be
>> many of such roots (coming up from merges of previously disjunct
>> histories); even the git project itself has several. Which one to
>> choose?
>
>Actually HEAD~n follows first parent, so it would be only one such root.

Exactly what I was after.  Something like:

% git diff HEAD~-1

or

% git diff ^HEAD~0

whatever ...


Bill
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