git.shell.problem.txt

The following two commands were run on the git source (cloned from
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git)

    $ git rev-list bf0c6e83
    bf0c6e839c692142784caf07b523cd69442e57a5
    e497ea2a9b6c378f01d092c210af20cbee762475
    8bc9a0c769ac1df7820f2dbf8f7b7d64835e3c68
    e83c5163316f89bfbde7d9ab23ca2e25604af290

    $ git rev-list bf0c6e83 ^8bc9a0c76
    bf0c6e839c692142784caf07b523cd69442e57a5
    8bc9a0c769ac1df7820f2dbf8f7b7d64835e3c68
    e83c5163316f89bfbde7d9ab23ca2e25604af290

I expected the latter not to list e83c51633. What am I misunderstanding?
(Those commits are way at the beginning of the project, the first four
commits.)

(edit) Solution: my shell was mishandling the '^'. This works correctly:

    $ git rev-list bf0c6e83 \^8bc9a0c76
    bf0c6e839c692142784caf07b523cd69442e57a5
    e497ea2a9b6c378f01d092c210af20cbee762475

Thanks jast! (on git#freenode)