Andy Parkins wrote: > Git's commit-ish is very powerful. I was wondering however, if there was a > shortcut for (for example)? > > git-diff 3435fdb4c^..3435fdb4c Thats "git-diff 3435fdb4c^ 3435fdb4c" - diff need pair of things (one or more might be implied/default), not DAG. > That is - the short range of a particular commit's parent to that commit; like > > git-diff 3435fdb4c! > > Or similar. Or similar. You have to use git-diff-tree, not git-diff as git-diff uses working tree as second tree if second argument is not given (and index as first tree if first argument is not given). $ git diff-tree -p 3435fdb4c (-p to show patch instead of "whatchanged" output) shows diff to parent of commit 3435fdb4c (if commit is merge commit, show nothing; use -m or -c or --cc then). By the way 3435fdb4c.. means 3435fdb4c..HEAD, and ..3435fdb4c means HEAD..3435fdb4c (where HEAD means current branch). -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html