Re: git-name-rev off-by-one bug

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Nov 30, 2005, 00:53 UTC
Message-ID: <7v4q5v5536.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20051130001503.28498.qmail@science.horizon.com>

linux@horizon.com writes:

> I'm wondering if this isn't a philosophical issue.

I do not think so. I have to admit I did not exactly agree with the current behaviour when it was changed from the previous one, but at the same time I did not have anything concrete against it, and I did not care too much about the details back then. I suspect it was primarily be done to make things easier for the end user without changing already existing tools (i.e., git-diff-files did not have to start taking --stage=2 flag to tell it to compare stage2 and working tree).

This is the message from Linus that announced the current behaviour:

	http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=git&m=111826424425624

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