From: Johannes Löthberg <johannes@kyriasis.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 11:02:13 GMT
Subject: Re: Three dot notion used inconsitent?
Message-ID: <20151118110213.GA24055@zorg.kyriasis.com>
In-Reply-To: <1CDF2D38-B73A-4C49-BC10-1F3BA1873733@gmail.com>

On 18/11, Lars Schneider wrote:
>git diff branchA...branchB
>--> gives me the diff between (the common ancestor of A and B) and B. That means I never see changes on branchA.
>
>git log branchA...branchB
>--> gives me the commits reachable from A and B. That includes changes from branchA.
>
>Is this because of a design decision that I do not (yet) understand or is this inconsistent for historical reasons?
>

The standard meaning of A...B is all the commits reachable from A or B, 
but not from both. (See gitrevisions(7) for more info.)

git-diff has its own nonstandard definition, where A...B is defined as 
all the commits from a comman ancestor of A and B, up to B.

-- 
Sincerely,
  Johannes Löthberg
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