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Re: [PATCH] fmt-patch: understand old <his> notation

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OGOlivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>
Date
May 6, 2006, 23:19 UTC
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<20060506231901.GB45996@dspnet.fr.eu.org>
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0605061527030.16343@g5.osdl.org>
On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 03:30:38PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> Maybe not. I've actually cursed the fact that I made "git diff X" mean 
> "diff from X to current working tree", because it almost never makes any 
> sense at all when X is anything but "HEAD".
> 
> I probably _should_ have made "git diff X" mean basically "git show X", 
> and not what it means now.

Funny, when tracking other projects I use (sometimes path-filtered) "git diff origin" often, but I find "git show origin" utterly uninteresting.

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  1. fmt-patch: understand old <his> notationJohannes Schindelin, May 6, 2006
  2. Junio C HamanoMay 6, 2006
  3. Johannes SchindelinMay 6, 2006
  4. Junio C HamanoMay 7, 2006
  5. Linus TorvaldsMay 6, 2006
  6. Olivier GalibertMay 6, 2006
  7. Junio C HamanoMay 7, 2006

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