Is there any limitation for n in git show HEAD^n or git show HEAD~n commands? when I run git show HEAD^4 it gives me fatal: ambiguous argument 'HEAD^4': unknown revision or path not in the working tree. error while running git show HEAD^^^^ shows me the corresponding commit.
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1`HEAD^^^^` is equivalent to `HEAD~4`, not `HEAD^4`. – mkrieger1 Oct 09 '20 at 13:09
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in HEAD^n , n cannot be greater than 2 and HEAD^2 is only the case when the HEAD is pointing to a result of a merge – amiref Oct 09 '20 at 13:35
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1n can also be greater than 2 in HEAD^n, if a commit has more than 2 parents. – mkrieger1 Oct 09 '20 at 13:39
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1@amiref a commit can have more than two parents, so n can be greater than 2. It’s not common though. – evolutionxbox Oct 09 '20 at 13:51