Re: [PATCH v2 02/18] Add a new builtin: branch-diff

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: May 8, 2018, 03:44 UTC
Message-ID: <20180508034429.GA7242@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kZbRCH2OiTW1Ge31R9JN+vWD6tcjNWVGSzkSBcYZvwDjw@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, May 07, 2018 at 03:24:59PM -0700, Stefan Beller wrote:

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> Hence I propose "git range-diff", similar to topic-diff, that
> was proposed earlier.
> 
> * it "diffs ranges" of commits.
> * it can also deal with out-of-git things like patch series,
>   but that is a mere by product and may not be desired.
>   Just like git-diff can also compare two files outside a git
>   repo, that would not be a good use case.
>   Keep the name Git-centric!
> * it autocompletes well.

FWIW, I like this by far of all of the suggested names.

-Peff

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