On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 08:17:17PM CET, Bill Lear wrote: > Git "indexing" of commits has a way to "go back": > > % git diff HEAD~3 > > Can I say "all the way back", or "all the way back - 1" somehow? What would that mean? :) Do you mean to the "root" of the history? The trouble is, there can be many of such roots (coming up from merges of previously disjunct histories); even the git project itself has several. Which one to choose? -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ The meaning of Stonehenge in Traflamadorian, when viewed from above, is: "Replacement part being rushed with all possible speed." -- Kurt Vonnegut, Sirens from Titan - 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