Re: Deprecating git diff ..; dealing with other ranges

> 
> On Tue, Mar 12 2019, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> 
>> On Mär 12 2019, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I however think it may be worth making sure that our docs do not
>>> encourage "diff A..B" and teach "diff A B" when comparing two
>>> endpoints.  That can be done without changing anything in the code.
>>
>> The nice thing about "diff A..B" is that you can c&p the output from the
>> fetch run without the need to edit it.
> 
> Not to shoot down this effort, just to add another similar thing I do
> regularly for ff-branches:
> 
>  1. Copy/paste A..B fetch output
>  2. git log A..B
>  3. ^log^diff
> 
> I.e. I just need to tell my terminal to re-run the same "log" command
> with "diff" instead of "log".
> 
> Of course as covered in the linked thread it doesn't work for some
> (non-ff) cases, and I'll sometimes end up cursing it and swapping around
> ".." for "..." with log/diff.