On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Andrew McNabb <amcnabb@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The "--skip" option to "git log" did not behave as I expected, but I'm > not sure whether this was user error, unclear documentation, or a bug. > Specifically, I ran the following, intending to find the previous > revision of a given file: > > git log --skip=1 -n 1 --oneline some-filename > > My expectation was that this would behave the same as: > > git log -n 2 --oneline some-filename |tail -n 1 > > Instead, the --skip=1 parameter seemed to be ignored. After I tried > several different values, it appears that the commits are skipped before > path matching with "some-filename". Hmm: $ git log --oneline GIT-VERSION-GEN | head -2 7f41b6bbe3 Post 1.7.7 first wave 703f05ad58 Git 1.7.7 $ git log --oneline --skip=1 -n 1 GIT-VERSION-GEN 703f05ad58 Git 1.7.7 j. -- 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