Question

I just recently noticed that when you do
git cherry-pick foo..bar

foo is not included. If your history looks like this:

bar
blubb
foo

the previous commit will only pick blubb and bar.
That’s the same with

git log foo..bar

One can easily fix that by using

git log foo~..bar

I just couldn’t find that documented and wanted to know if all commands that accept range operators in git work this way or if it depends on the specific command.

I guess the former but who knows…

Answer 1

Yes, all Git commands that accept a revision will work with ~ that, in this form, specifies immediate parent of the revision. You can find a more detailed descriptions of Git revisions format here.