Re: Highly inconsistent diff UI

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 24, 2013, 19:23 UTC
Message-ID: <20130424192339.GH29963@google.com>
In-Reply-To: <7va9ones4p.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

> And it does not match "git log origin...HEAD" which gives both sides
> of the symmetric difference of the history.  To match it, you have
> to say "git log --right-only origin...HEAD" or something.

I tend to use --left-right. All I meant is that with both diff and log, ... is a way to get something meaningful when my history and someone else's history have diverged.

I agree that it would be easier to explain if there were some

	git diff --from-merge-base A B

We could say that "git diff A...B" is a mostly meaningless shorthand for that.

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