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Tutorial problem a/a a/b

From
DTDarrin Thompson <darrint@progeny.com>
Date
Jul 28, 2005, 20:20 UTC
Message-ID
<1122582005.12374.6.camel@localhost.localdomain>
In the tutorial the user is instructed to create two files: a and b.
Then when the user diffs the files, they see this:
diff --git a/a b/a

That really confused somebody and I had to untangle their brain. :-) I
don't have a patch for it, but thought I'd point out: perhaps a and b
aren't the best example filenames given git's diff format. :-D

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