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Re: [Annoyance] "git log .." thinks ".." is ambiguous

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
May 2, 2011, 19:36 UTC
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<20110502193651.GC10487@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 03:33:21PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> I didn't check, but what does your patch do with:
> 
>   $ cd "`git rev-parse --show-toplevel`"
>   $ git log ..

Nevermind, it properly complains "'..' is outside repository"; of course no new code is needed because we could already do "git log ../..".

I do notice that gitk doesn't work, though. Doing "gitk .." produces an "ambiguous argument" error. It looks like "git rev-parse .." still treats it as HEAD..HEAD, which may be the source of the error.

-Peff
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  6. specifying ranges: we did not mean to make ".." an empty setJunio C Hamano, May 2, 2011
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