the number of commits which would be shown by `git log tag..input`
will be the smallest number of commits possible.
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-Author
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-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, but somewhat
-butchered by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>. Later significantly
-updated by Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>.
-
-Documentation
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-Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
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GIT
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Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite