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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: a sed question
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Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> writes:
[...]
> Of course, if you can _reduce_ the amount of data at an early stage
> (like in your 'git -n 1' sample) the earlier the better! (My 'git',
> BTW, doesn't seem to support an option '-n'; which might be another
> reason to let a standard tool like Awk do the task for which it has
> been defined, text-processing.)

What version of git are you using?

Note that "-n 1" is an argument to "git log", not to "git".
"git -n 1" is an error, as is "git -n 1 log".  "git log -n 1" should work.

The "-n" option can also be given as just the number:

    git log -1

or as a long option:

    git log --max-count=1

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