From: Alexey Shumkin <alex.crezoff@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 20:08:46 GMT
Subject: Re: Q: "git diff" using tag names
Message-ID: <20111103000846.784cba29@zappedws>
In-Reply-To: <7vty6mkgsg.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Oh, I see

> Alexey Shumkin <alex.crezoff@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> >> Also it seems that both syntaxes work:
> >> git diff v0.4..v0.5
> >> git diff v0.4 v0.5
> > honestly, I do not know the difference (at the moment :))
> > may be gurus or manual will help to discover it
> 
> The latter is the kosher version, as diff is about two "endpoints"
> and not about "ranges". The only reason the former is parsed without
> erroring out is because too many people are used to type .. between
> two things without thinking, learned the notation from "git log",
> which _is_ about ranges.