On Wed, 28 Sep 2016, Alex Pilon wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 04:48:15AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > perfect example: "how do i find the Nth last version of a file?"
> > now, you can certainly do this in git, using "git log", then extract
> > the commit ID from the appropriate line and so on. but (AFAIK), there
> > is no single command to get that info.
>
> Hehe.
>
> git rev-list --max-count=1 --skip=2 HEAD -- theFile
>
> I'm sorry. Couldn't resist. rev-list and rev-parse are your friends
> for these kind of more programmatic searches.
oh, i know many solutions for that exist, but remember, that's more
git "plumbing" than "porcelain". you know what i mean. :-)
rday
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