some git usage related queries

[Saifi Khan]

On Sun, 8 Nov 2009, Peter Avalos wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 09:17:58AM +0530, Saifi Khan wrote:
> > 
> > While studying the recent commits related to mandoc(1), there
> > are two very similar commits:
> > 
> > 1. Sascha's mandoc(1) commits (Nov 7)
> >    54 files changed, 1349 insertions(+), 730 deletions(-)
> >    http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/commitdiff/0dd4f1472251d685486367a185d3b9d78062f84d
> > 
> > 2. Alexander's mandoc(1) commits (Nov 8)
> >    54 files changed, 1349 insertions(+), 730 deletions(-)
> >    http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/commitdiff/32c903ac153404697d03cdf54825a041b54dd714
> > 
> > How do i see what are the changes between the two ?
> > 
> 
> git diff 0dd4f1472251d685486367a185d3b9d78062f84d..32c903ac153404697d03cdf54825a041b54dd714
> 
> I'm not sure what Alexander did to cause that.  Was there a git push -f
> involved?
> 

Thank you Peter for your reply.

Yes, i also ran the same command, but it gives an error 'invalid
revision range'.

Please see the entire log below.

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Script started on Mon Nov  9 10:54:04 2009

$pwd
/usr/home/saifi/workarea/dragonfly
$ls
COPYRIGHT               bin/                    cscope.po.out           lib/                    sys/
Makefile                contrib/                etc/                    libexec/                tags
Makefile.inc1           crypto/                 g.log                   nrelease/               test/
Makefile_upgrade.inc    cscope.files            games/                  sbin/                   tools/
README                  cscope.in.out           gnu/                    secure/                 usr.bin/
UPDATING                cscope.out              include/                share/                  usr.sbin/

$git pull -v
 git://chlamydia.fs.ei.tum.de/dragonfly
 = [up to date]      DragonFly_RELEASE_1_10 -> origin/DragonFly_RELEASE_1_10
 = [up to date]      DragonFly_RELEASE_1_12 -> origin/DragonFly_RELEASE_1_12
 = [up to date]      DragonFly_RELEASE_1_2 -> origin/DragonFly_RELEASE_1_2
 = [up to date]      DragonFly_RELEASE_1_4 -> origin/DragonFly_RELEASE_1_4
 = [up to date]      DragonFly_RELEASE_1_6 -> origin/DragonFly_RELEASE_1_6
 = [up to date]      DragonFly_RELEASE_1_8 -> origin/DragonFly_RELEASE_1_8
 = [up to date]      DragonFly_RELEASE_2_0 -> origin/DragonFly_RELEASE_2_0
 = [up to date]      DragonFly_RELEASE_2_2 -> origin/DragonFly_RELEASE_2_2
 = [up to date]      DragonFly_RELEASE_2_4 -> origin/DragonFly_RELEASE_2_4
 = [up to date]      doc        -> origin/doc
 = [up to date]      master     -> origin/master
 = [up to date]      netmp      -> origin/netmp
 = [up to date]      repo/hooks -> origin/repo/hooks
 = [up to date]      site       -> origin/site
 = [up to date]      vendor/ACPICA-UNIX -> origin/vendor/ACPICA-UNIX
 = [up to date]      vendor/ATHEROS -> origin/vendor/ATHEROS
 = [up to date]      vendor/AWK -> origin/vendor/AWK
 = [up to date]      vendor/BIND -> origin/vendor/BIND
 = [up to date]      vendor/BINUTILS -> origin/vendor/BINUTILS
 = [up to date]      vendor/BINUTILS220 -> origin/vendor/BINUTILS220
 = [up to date]      vendor/BSDINSTALLER -> origin/vendor/BSDINSTALLER
 = [up to date]      vendor/BSDTAR -> origin/vendor/BSDTAR
 = [up to date]      vendor/BZIP -> origin/vendor/BZIP
 = [up to date]      vendor/CVS -> origin/vendor/CVS
 = [up to date]      vendor/DHCP -> origin/vendor/DHCP
 = [up to date]      vendor/DIFFUTILS -> origin/vendor/DIFFUTILS
 = [up to date]      vendor/FILE -> origin/vendor/FILE
 = [up to date]      vendor/GCC -> origin/vendor/GCC
 = [up to date]      vendor/GCC44 -> origin/vendor/GCC44
 = [up to date]      vendor/GDB -> origin/vendor/GDB
 = [up to date]      vendor/GDTOA -> origin/vendor/GDTOA
 = [up to date]      vendor/GMP -> origin/vendor/GMP
 = [up to date]      vendor/GPERF -> origin/vendor/GPERF
 = [up to date]      vendor/GROFF -> origin/vendor/GROFF
 = [up to date]      vendor/HEIMDAL -> origin/vendor/HEIMDAL
 = [up to date]      vendor/HOSTAPD -> origin/vendor/HOSTAPD
 = [up to date]      vendor/INTEL_ACPICA -> origin/vendor/INTEL_ACPICA
 = [up to date]      vendor/LESS -> origin/vendor/LESS
 = [up to date]      vendor/LIBARCHIVE -> origin/vendor/LIBARCHIVE
 = [up to date]      vendor/LIBEVENT -> origin/vendor/LIBEVENT
 = [up to date]      vendor/LIBPCAP -> origin/vendor/LIBPCAP
 = [up to date]      vendor/LIBSTDC++ -> origin/vendor/LIBSTDC++
 = [up to date]      vendor/LUKEMFTP -> origin/vendor/LUKEMFTP
 = [up to date]      vendor/MPFR -> origin/vendor/MPFR
 = [up to date]      vendor/NCURSES -> origin/vendor/NCURSES
 = [up to date]      vendor/NETGRAPH -> origin/vendor/NETGRAPH
 = [up to date]      vendor/NTPD -> origin/vendor/NTPD
 = [up to date]      vendor/OPENPAM -> origin/vendor/OPENPAM
 = [up to date]      vendor/OPENSSH -> origin/vendor/OPENSSH
 = [up to date]      vendor/OPENSSL -> origin/vendor/OPENSSL
 = [up to date]      vendor/PAM_PASSWDQC -> origin/vendor/PAM_PASSWDQC
 = [up to date]      vendor/READLINE -> origin/vendor/READLINE
 = [up to date]      vendor/SENDMAIL -> origin/vendor/SENDMAIL
 = [up to date]      vendor/TCPDUMP -> origin/vendor/TCPDUMP
 = [up to date]      vendor/TCSH -> origin/vendor/TCSH
 = [up to date]      vendor/TEXINFO -> origin/vendor/TEXINFO
 = [up to date]      vendor/TNFTP -> origin/vendor/TNFTP
 = [up to date]      vendor/WPA_SUPPLICANT -> origin/vendor/WPA_SUPPLICANT
 = [up to date]      vendor/ZLIB -> origin/vendor/ZLIB
Already up-to-date.

$git diff 0dd4f1472251d685486367a185d3b9d78062f84d..32c903ac153404697d03cdf54825a041b54dd714
fatal: Invalid revision range 0dd4f1472251d685486367a185d3b9d78062f84d..32c903ac153404697d03cdf54825a041b54dd714

$exit
exit

Script done on Mon Nov  9 10:54:39 2009
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thanks
Saifi.