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)? -- 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