Re: git show -m with a parent number

2016-03-30 Thread Andreas Schwab
Anatoly Borodin writes: > It's not like `git diff X^2 X` is a big problem, but too much of a > copypaste. Brace expansion helps a bit: git diff X{^2,} Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for someth

Re: git show -m with a parent number

2016-03-30 Thread Anatoly Borodin
Hi! Jeff King wrote: > For the first one, showing all diffs is what I want. For the second, it > only makes sense to for the first parent case, as following other > parents would zig-zag through history. Lucky you! :) You probably don't need to inspect 9 month old ex-svn branches with sync (i.e.

Re: git show -m with a parent number

2016-03-28 Thread Junio C Hamano
Jeff King writes: > On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 08:46:02PM +, Anatoly Borodin wrote: > >> is there a good reason for `git show -m` to not accept the number of a >> parent of a merge commit? I can run `git show --first-parent COMMIT`, >> but need to write `git diff COMMIT^2 COMMIT` every time I wa

Re: git show -m with a parent number

2016-03-28 Thread Jeff King
On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 08:46:02PM +, Anatoly Borodin wrote: > is there a good reason for `git show -m` to not accept the number of a > parent of a merge commit? I can run `git show --first-parent COMMIT`, > but need to write `git diff COMMIT^2 COMMIT` every time I want to diff > with the seco

git show -m with a parent number

2016-03-27 Thread Anatoly Borodin
Hi All, is there a good reason for `git show -m` to not accept the number of a parent of a merge commit? I can run `git show --first-parent COMMIT`, but need to write `git diff COMMIT^2 COMMIT` every time I want to diff with the second parent! `git cherry-pick -m 2 COMMIT` works, so why can't `g