From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 06:50:31 GMT
Subject: Re: git-diff between /dev/null and blob
Message-ID: <7vmzaq9sjs.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <eajl4r$b7o$1@sea.gmane.org>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

> Currently, due to artifact of git-diff argument parsing you can get diff 
> of two arbitrary blobs given by their sha1 id, e.g.
>   git diff ab8050ceb4e43522e858768cc2c02fcb91839370 fd05278808d458602587bb024a48726018d30926

Just FYI, it is pretty much by design not artifact to allow
something like this:

	git diff master:Makefile next:Makefile