Re: [Bug report] git diff stat shows unrelated diff

> Hi Viresh,
> 
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 10:40 PM Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> wrote:
> >
> > On 14-02-19, 13:23, Elijah Newren wrote:
> > > I think you're getting tripped up by double-dot vs triple-dot with
> > > diff being different than log:
> > >
> > > `git diff D..E` means the same thing as `git diff D E`, i.e. diff the
> > > two commits D and E.
> >
> > Right, so both the branches have at least until rc2 (though
> > pm/linux-next had until rc6), why will the diff D..E show the diff
> > between rc1 and rc2 ?
> 
> I don't think it does; it includes the diff between rc2 and rc6.
> First, `git diff D..E` will show you roughly the same thing as if you
> have two clones of linux, one with D checked out, one with E checked
> out, and then you run 'diff -ru linux-copy1/ linux-copy2/'.
> 
> But let's go back to your example, you had
> 
> Branch A: commit 55538fbc79e9
> Branch B: commit a4f342b9607d
> Branch C: commit 7c139d3f0f99
> Branch pm/linux-next: unspecified, but I'll guess commit a06639e89e4