On Friday, February 23, 2007 at 18:52:22 (+0100) Jakub Narebski writes: >Petr Baudis wrote: > >> 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? > >Actually HEAD~n follows first parent, so it would be only one such root. Exactly what I was after. Something like: % git diff HEAD~-1 or % git diff ^HEAD~0 whatever ... Bill - 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