Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: > I thought ^@ was invented for scripting, but can't imagine a usecase for ^!. I use "git diff $commit^!" from time to time to get the diff between a merge and its first parent. For comparison, I haven't found ^@ or "git log $commit^!" useful. The commit introducing the former says | I needed it to do the multi-tree diff on Len's infamous 12-way | Octopus; typing "diff --cc funmerge funmerge^1 funmerge^2 funmerge^3 | ..." was too painful. which is spelled as "git show --cc funmerge" these days. -- 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