From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:35:36 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make 'diff C^!' show the same diff as 'show C'
Message-ID: <7vk50ynjnb.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vocqanjua.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> We already mark the left side commit "..." with SYMMETRIC_LEFT bit, so you
> should be able to detect it from the setup_revisions() result.  If we were
> to formerly add some special meaning (other than being a short-hand of

blush.  I meant "formally".

> ^C^n C) to the ugly C^! syntax, I would suggest marking the result of in a
> similar way to allow you to detect it from the result.
>
> But I do mean moderately strong negativeness when I say "if we _were_"
> above.