From: Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 06 May 2006 23:19:01 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fmt-patch: understand old <his> notation
Message-ID: <20060506231901.GB45996@dspnet.fr.eu.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0605061527030.16343@g5.osdl.org>

On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 03:30:38PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 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.

  OG.