Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: > For the record, 'git rev-parse master:README..HEAD@{3}~2' works just > fine. I don't know whether you want to consider it "sensible" or not, > but the current revisions.txt is consistent with this. rev-list errors out though: error: Object 15bfea is a blob, not a commit fatal: Invalid revision range master:README..HEAD@{3}~2 Hence my suggestion to change the meaning of what a valid "revision range" is (using rev-list as the guideline) , and be done with it. -- 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